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Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Synesthesia | Using words that relate to one of the five senses to describe a situation from another of the five senses.
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| Dead Metaphor | Metaphor so overused that its original impact has been lost.
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| Personification | The giving of personality or life to inanimate objects or to ideas.
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| Synecdoche | A part of something to stand for the whole.
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| Simile | A comparison of two persons, things, or other elements, with the use of "like", "as", or "than".
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| Hyperbole | An obvious exaggeration for the sake of effect without any attempt at deception.
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| Rhetorical Question | Questions to which no answer is expected or which implies its own answer.
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| Paradox | Statement which appears contradictory but actually presents a truth.
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| Metaphor | A direct comparison without "like", "as", or "than".
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| Symbol | A figure in which a concrete object is used to stand for an abstract idea; something that stands for something else.
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| Litotes | An expression which actually says less than might be said; understatement; saying the opposite.
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| Conceit | Unusual or surprising comparison between two very different things (special kind of metaphor or complicated analogy).
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| Extended Metaphor | A metaphor developed at length and involving several points of comparison.
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| Metonymy | The use of a word for another with which it is intimately connected.
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| Allegory | A narrative in which character, objects, and events have underlying political, religious, moral, and social meanings.
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| Oxymoron | Fuses two contradictory opposing ideas.
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| Mixed Metaphor | When two metaphors are jumbled together, often illogically.
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| Apostrophe | An address to the dead as if living; to the inanimate as if animate; to the absent as if present; to the unborn as if born.
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| Enjambment | Carrying the poetic line to another line before completing the thought.
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| Figures of Speech | A form of expression in which words are used out of the usual sense in order to make the meaning more specific; category that includes ways to create imagery.
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| Juxtaposition | Placing two things side-by-side.
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