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An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
-"Love is a rose," "rose" is the vehicle for "love," the tenor. |
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A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it.
-•"I stopped at a bar and had a couple of double Scotches. They didn't do me any good. All they did was make me think of Silver Wig, and I never saw her again." |
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The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
-•"Plink, plink, fizz, fizz" |
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A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.
-We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations. We're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
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A statement that appears to contradict itself.
-•"War is peace."
"Freedom is slavery."
"Ignorance is strength." |
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A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.
-•The wind stood up and gave a shout.
He whistled on his fingers and
Kicked the withered leaves |
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A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.
-•"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." |
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A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.
-•"My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain." |
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A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole (for example, ABCs for alphabet) or the whole for a part ("England won the World Cup in 1966").
-•Give us this day our daily bread. |
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A figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.
-•"I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain." |
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