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| the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure |
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| igure of speech where two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as. |
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| is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to using the name of something closely associated with it. For example, using the term Washington to refer to the government of the United States |
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| a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another. |
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a figure of speech in which something is used to symbolize/represent something else, not necessarily literally
based off of |
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| the representation through language of sense experience |
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| a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth |
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A composition in verse, especially one that is characterized by a highly developed artistic form and by the use of heightened language and rhyme to express an intensely imaginative interpretation of the subject.
A composition that, though not in verse, is characterized by great beauty of language or expression. |
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| A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth; a self-contradictory and false proposition |
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| something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign |
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| restrained or muted statement: a statement, or a way of expressing yourself, that is deliberately less forceful or dramatic than the subject would seem to justify or require |
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1) style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words
2)the accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound quality manifested by an individual speaker, usually judged in terms of prevailing standards of acceptability; enunciation. |
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(1) the abstract concept explored in a literary work.
(2)a frequently recurring idea.
(3)repetition of a meaningful element in a work. |
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quality or character of sound.
2. a particular quality, way of sounding, modulation, or intonation of the voice as expressive of some meaning, feeling, spirit, etc.
3. stress of voice on a syllable of a word. |
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| identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse |
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1.the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
2. a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.
3. an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected. |
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| poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines or verses. |
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| Describing the rhythms of poetry by dividing the lines into feet, marking the locations of stressed and unstressed syllables, and counting the syllables. |
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| A brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event--real or fictional. |
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| a metrical foot with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
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