FIGURES OF SPEECH

Simile

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another different thing using 'like' or 'as'.

Metaphor

A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two different things without using 'like' or 'as'.

Personification

Attributing human characteristics to non-human entities or abstract ideas.

Apostrophe

A rhetorical device addressing an absent person or an inanimate object as if it could respond.

Metonymy

Substituting the name of one thing for that of another closely associated with it.

Synecdoche

A figure of speech where a part represents the whole or vice versa.

Hyperbole

Exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally, used for emphasis.

Antithesis

Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases or clauses.

Paradox

A seemingly self-contradictory statement that may reveal a deeper truth.

Litotes

An understatement that expresses a positive statement by negating its opposite.

Oxymoron

A figure of speech that combines contradictory terms to create an effect.

Irony

A contrast between expectation and reality, encompassing verbal, situational, or dramatic irony.