figures of speach

Linda D. (United States of America)
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  1. trope
    language used in a nonliteral sense
  2. zeugma
    rhetorical use of a word to govern two or more words
  3. prosopopoeia
    representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
  4. synecdoche
    using part of something to refer to the whole thing
  5. metonymy
    substituting the name of a feature for the name of the thing
  6. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  7. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  8. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  9. exaggeration
    making to seem more important than it really is
  10. oxymoron
    conjoined contradictory terms
  11. conceit
    the trait of being unduly vain
  12. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  13. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  14. figure
    alternate name for the body of a human being
  15. figure of speech
    language used in a nonliteral sense
  16. metalepsis
    substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another
  17. kenning
    a compound word serving as a metaphorical name for something
Created on Sun May 15 03:41:11 EDT 2011 (updated Sun May 15 04:17:07 EDT 2011)

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