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| a pattern of sound that includes the repetition of consonant sounds, as in “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,” “long-lived,” “short shrift,” and “the fickle finger of fate.” |
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| a trite, expression whose effectiveness has been worn out through overuse and excessive familiarity |
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| a phrase where the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the induvidual words |
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| a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump |
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| has a meaning established by the association of incongruous or contradictory words, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly” |
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| a short pithy statement of a general truth, one that condenses common experiences into memorable form |
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| the repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds |
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| gives the human characteristics to inanimate objects or abstract ideas |
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| an extravagant exaggeration, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton |
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| an elaborate word play using similar sounds or concepts |
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| a figure of speech in which two basically different things are compared using 'like' or 'as', as in "How like the winter hath my absence been" or "So are you to my thoughts as food to life" (Shakespeare) |
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| words that when pronounced sound similar to the actual sounds they describe,such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to |
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| a kind of language occurring chiefly in casual and playful speech, made up typically of short lived coinages and figures of speech that are deliberately used in place of standard terms, as Hit the road |
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| reasoning or explaining from parallel cases |
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