Rhetorical Devices/ Figurative Language

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  1. oxymoron
    conjoined contradictory terms
  2. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  3. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  4. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  5. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  6. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  7. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  8. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  9. pun
    a humorous play on words
  10. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  11. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  12. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
  13. symbol
    something visible that represents something invisible
  14. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  15. theme
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
  16. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
  17. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  18. understatement
    something said in a restrained way for ironic contrast
  19. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  20. consonance
    the repetition of sounds especially at the ends of words
  21. idiom
    the usage or vocabulary characteristic of a group of people
  22. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
  23. parallelism
    similarity by virtue of corresponding
  24. euphemism
    an inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one
  25. paradox
    a statement that contradicts itself
Created on Sun Jan 19 13:00:56 EST 2014 (updated Sun Jan 19 13:02:06 EST 2014)

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