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Alliteration

The repetition of an initial consonant sound

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Allusion

A reference to a person, place, poem, books, events etc which is not part of the story, that the author expects the reader will recognize

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Anaphora

The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clause or verses (contrast with epiphora and epistrophe)

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Antithesis

The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in a balanced phrase

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Apostrophe

Breaking off discours to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character

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Assonance

Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words

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Chiasmus

A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but the parts reversed.

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Euphemism

The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considering offensively explicit

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Hyperbole

A extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heighted effects

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Verbal Irony

A techniques in which the intended meaning of a statement differs from the meaning that the words appear to express

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Situational Irony

Involves an incongruity between what is expected or intended and what actually occurs

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Dramatic Irony

An effect produced by a narrative in which the audience knows more about present or future circumstance than a character in the story

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Litotes

A figure of speech consisting of an understanding in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite

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Metaphor

An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common

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Metonymy

A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it’s closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it

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Onomatopoeia

The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to

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Oxymoron

A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side

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Paradox

A statement that appears to be contradicting itself, but it's often true

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Personification

A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities

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Pun

A play on word, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words

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Simile

A stated comparison (usually formed with “like” or “as”) between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have a certain qualities in common

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Synecdoche

A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole

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Meiosis

A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately make a situation seem less important or serious than it is

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