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Figurative Language 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Idiom | a word or phrase that is not taken literally |
| Paradox | a statement that is self- contradictory because it often contains two statements that are both true, but in general, cannot both be true at the same time |
| Allusion | a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or something that happened. This can be real or imaginary and may refer to anything, including paintings, opera, folk lore, mythical figures, or religious manuscripts |
| Aphorism | a tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage |
| Anaphora | the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs |
| Euphemism | the act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive |
| Apostrophe | the direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition |
| Assonance | resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words; the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants |
| Metonymy | a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated |
| Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the material for the thing made from it |
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