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| abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events. The objective of its use is to teach a moral lesson. |
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| deliberate exaggeration of an essential feature or property of an object (often humorous, ironic or overemotional). |
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| an implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics. |
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| a quite unexpected substitution of one word for another, or one concept for another on the ground of association. |
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| an inanimate object or an animal is endowed with a quality typical of a human being. |
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| a repetition of similar syntactic structures in close proximity. |
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| repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable. Types of repetition: anadiplosis, anaphora, epiphora, polyptoton. |
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| two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. |
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| an understatement by using double negatives or a positive statement expressed by negating its opposite expressions. |
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| characterization of an object by comparing it with another object belonging to a different class of things and thus giving rise to a new understanding of it. Similes have formal elements in their structure: connective words such as like, as, seem, as if, such as, etc. |
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