Figures Of Speech Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Anaphora | repetition of the same word or words beginning two or more lines of poetry |
| Antithesis | a parallel structure containing opposing ideas |
| Apostrophe | addressing someone absent or dead or something that is not able to speak as if it could reply |
| Hyperbole | an exaggeration in the service of truth |
| metaphor | the implied comparison of two unlike things EX: In lust they burn... |
| litotes | affirming by negating (Not unamazed she thus in answer spake) |
| Chiamus | a second part that is balanced with the first part, but the parts are reversed syntactically |
| Epithet | adjective, noun, or noun phrase that points out the characteristic of a thing or person and becomes a substitute for the name of the thing or person. (Kenning). |
| Isocolon | parallel balance of phrases and clauses |
| Meiosis | understatement for purpose of humor and satire |
| Oxymoron | self-contradictory yoking together of words or smaller combinations. (Jumbo Shrimp)(darkness visible) |
| Paradox | an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless true |
| Personification | the attribution of human characteristics to human non-human things. |
| Polyptoton | repetition in proximity of words with the same roots but are different forms of the word or have different pre/suffixes. EX: His Fierceness if the fierce intent it brought. |
| Simile | using "like" or "as" to compare |
| Zeugma | a verb governing two objects with a change of meaning in the verb because of the objects |
| Figures Of Speech | saying one thing and meaning another |
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