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Figurative Language and Rhetorical Devices

Other Rhetorical Device

Repetition and Parallelism:

Using a clause, word, or phrase in a small passage multiple times.

Ex. for Repetition; "I eat. You eat. We all eat."

Ex. for Parallelism; "We love it when you sing. We would love it if you would sing more often."

Apostrophe:

Address directed of someone absent or abstractions.

Ex. "Death, be so bold!"

Hyperbole:

An exaggeration.

Ex. "That cat is as fat as an elephant!"

Allusion:

Believable and usually indirect reference to an event, person, or place.

Ex. in a moment of danger she cried, "The British are coming! The british are coming!"

Connotation:

The secondary or associated word meaning or expression plus its primary or explicit meaning.

Ex. A connotation for family wold be, 'A place of shelter, love, and comfort.'

SOUNDS

Onomatopoea:

A sound written down into a word.

Ex. "The bomb exploded with a 'boom'!"

Assonance:

Vowel sound that repeat in different words in the same sentences more than once.

Ex. "I 'want' to 'hunt' for fun."

Alliteratin:

Initially repeating consonants.

Ex. "The pumpkin patch plummeted in value."

Pun:

Play on words most often used as a joke.

Ex. "I am not going to go 'about' 'a boat'."

Ex. "What do you say 'about' 'a boat' that is sinking?"

Metonymy:

Replacing the name of something for its cause or anything it may be associated with ("wort" for toad).

Periphrasi:

An indirect style of expressing things.

Example: "The reason I consumed your yogurt is because I could quite possibly want yogurt."

Not periphrasis: "I ate your yogurt because I wanted yogurt."

Personificaton:

An animate made to have the characteristics of a human.

Ex. 'pride rock'

Oxymoron:

A contradiction to some thing in the same sentence.

Ex."Man, this is some 'awfully good' pie!"

Simile:

An comparison (like or as) "She is like a frog."

Metaphor:

A phrase or word indicating one kind of object or idea replacing each other to suggest a likeness or analogy between the two("town of fire").

Synecdoche:

A part that is used to represent the whole or for a part of the whole.

Ex. "The fins swam to the bait."

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