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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.
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.
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Nothing is written in stone.
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
ELA 6 th Period
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Definition- A statement that appears to contradict itself.
(same as oxymoron)
Example- War is peace
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.
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
a stated comparison
(usually formed with "like
or "as") between two
fundamentally dissimilar
things that have certain
qualities in common
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