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| the repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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| a brief reference to a person, a place, an event or well known words |
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| the placing together of contrasting ideas, often for the sake of irony |
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| the addressing of words to someone absent or something nonhuman, as if it were present or human |
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| the repetition of vowel sounds, as in the expression 'fit as a fiddle' |
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| the repetition of final consonant sounds, as in expressions such as 'last but not least,' 'park and lock' |
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| deliberate exaggeration to emphasize a truth |
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| in its verbal form, it is the use of words to mean the opposite of what they say. verbal irony sometimes takes specific forms such as paradox, antithesis, oxymoron. in its dramatic form or irony of situation, the outcome is opposite of what is expected. |
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| an implied comparison (no like or as is used) between two apparently dissimilar things |
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| words that name sounds and imitate the sound they name |
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