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Rhetorical Devices: Language/Diction (English I Honours)

TermDefinition
Allusion A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, or thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance.
Analogy A comparison of two things being alike in some way.
Cliche a trite, common, or tired expression made meaningless by thoughtless overuse
Euphemism a pleasant-sounding word or term used to avoid a harsh or blunt word or term
Hyperbole extreme or gross exaggeration
Imagery Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
Oxymoron a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.
Paradox a statement or proposition that,despite sound or apparently sound reasoning from acceptable premises,leads to a conclusion that seems senseless,logically unacceptable,or self-contradictory.
Personification A figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects, or ideas.
Rhetorical Question a figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point rather than to obtain an answer.
Satire The use of humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule used to criticize people or society
Understatement the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.
Metaphor a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object/action that substitutes to something else which is not literally applicable; a comparison of two unlike things wherein one thing IS the other
Onomatopoeia the use of a word that imitates a natural sound
Apostrophe speaking to someone absent, dead, or not human as if it could listen or reply
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