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simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') |
metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity |
onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote |
repetition | the act of doing or performing again |
alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
personification | the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. |
hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration |
theme | the subject matter of a conversation or discussion |