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#1 Alliteration

#2 Apostrophe

#4 Hyperbole

Definition:The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Example:How much wood could a woodchuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

definition:exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Example: These shoes take 50 million years to put on.

Definition: to address some absent person or thing some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character.

Example: Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again.

#3 Euphemism

#5 Irony

Definition: a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. 'Make something bad sound good'.

Example: I do not fail. I succeed in finding what does not work.

the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

Always open...... Closed.

#8 Oxymoron

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

Nothing is written in stone.

#6 Metaphor

#7 Onomatopoeia

A metaphor is a figure of speech that refers to something as being the same as another thing for rhetorical effect. It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between two ideas. Where a simile compares two items, a metaphor directly equates them, and does not use "like" or "as" as does a simile.

The couch potato watches TV all day

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

The ball bounced with a "boing!"

13 Figures of Speech

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# 9 Paradox

Definition- A statement that appears to contradict itself.

(same as oxymoron)

Example- War is peace

#10Personification

Personification is a figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas. In the arts, personification means representing a non-human thing as if it were human.

The flame of the candle danced in the dark.

#13 Understatement

To start with a definition of an understatement: A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is. A statement which lessens or minimizes the importance of what is meant. Restraint or lack of emphasis in expression, as for rhetorical effect.

He was little bit stressed during his exams

#12 Simile

a stated comparison

(usually formed with "like

or "as") between two

fundamentally dissimilar

things that have certain

qualities in common

#11 Pun

This cell phone is as old as the hills. My friend can eat like a pig.

a play on words

Simba was walking to slow so I told him to Mufasa

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