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Rhetorical Words 9/2

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Metaphor The comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as
Analogy similarity or comparability
Anaphora The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs
Hyperbole obvious and intentional exaggeration.
Euphemism the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.
Paradox a self-contradictory and false proposition.
Simile A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as.
Assonance resemblance of vowel sounds.
Consonance the correspondence of consonants, esp. those at the end of a word, in a passage of prose or verse.
Alliteration The repetition of the beginning sounds of words
Personification the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, esp. as a rhetorical figure.
Irony the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning:
Allusion An instance of indirect reference
Oxymoron a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect
Antithesis opposition; contrast
Apostrophe a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea
Synecdoche a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part,
Metonymy a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related
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