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the voice that indicates the verb performing an action or causing the happening denoted by the verb |
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| A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured |
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The repetition of the beginning sounds of words, as in “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,” “long-lived,” “short shrift,” and “the fickle finger of fate.” |
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| an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text |
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| A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different |
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| One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent |
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| A decline viewed in disappointing contrast with a previous rise |
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| a figure of speech in which irreconcilable opposites or strongly contrasting ideas are placed in sharp juxtaposition and sustained tension, as in the saying "Art is long, and Time is fleeting." |
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| A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse |
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Anecdotal Evidence [image] |
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| characterized by or given to telling anecdotes; "anecdotal conversation"; "an anecdotal history of jazz"; "he was at his anecdotic best" |
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| the repetition of similar vowels |
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