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An implied comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as.'
Ex) The world is a stage
A direct comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as.'
Ex) He’s as brave as a lion
An extended comparison between two things, often used to explain a complex idea by relating it to a simpler one.
Ex) Just as a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, so too can a person undergo significant change
Giving human qualities or characteristics to inanimate objects or abstract ideas.
Ex) The wind whispered through the trees
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, or the whole for a part.
Ex) “Wheels” as a car, “the crown” as the monarch
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by the name of something closely associated with it.
Ex) The pen is mightier than the sword (pen = written words, sword = brute force)
An extended metaphor in which characters, events, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities.
Ex) “Animal Farm” as the Russian Revolution
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
Ex) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
The repetition of vowel sounds within words.
Ex) The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain
The repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words.
Ex) He struck a streak of bad luck
Words that imitate the sounds they describe.
Ex) Buzz, crash, boom
Deliberately making something seem less important or significant than it is.
Ex) “Tis but a scratch” Litotes: a form of understatement that uses double negatives or negation to express an understatement. “He is no ordinary man”
A contrast between what is said and what is meant, what is expected and what occurs, or what a character knows and what the audience knows.
Ex) Situational is a fire station burning down, a happy reaction to a failed exam is verbal irony, and dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something that the characters do not.
A statement that seems self-contradictory but may contain a deeper truth.
Ex) Less is more
A figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear side by side.
Ex) Living dead, bittersweet
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences.
Ex) We shall not fail. We shall not falter. We shall not yield.
The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses or sentences.
Ex) Government of the people, by the people, for the people
The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in parallel structure.
Ex) One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind
A reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases.
Ex) Ask not what your country can do for you,ask what you can do for your country
The use of similar grammatical structures to express related ideas.
Ex) She likes cooking, jogging, and reading
The omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses.
Ex) I came, I saw, I conquered
The use of many conjunctions.
Ex) We have ships and men and money and stores
The arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in order of increasing importance or intensity.
Ex) He came, he saw, he conquered
Addressing an absent person, an inanimate object, or an abstract idea as if it were present and capable of understanding.
Ex) O death, where is thy sting?
A concise statement of a general truth or principle.
Ex) The simplest answer is usually the correct one
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