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| expression that departs from the literal sense or from the normal order of words, including the following: metaphors, simile, personification |
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| a comparison of two unlike things suggesting a shared common quality |
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| a comparison of two unlike things using like, as, or than |
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| giving human qualities to inanimate things; anthropomorphize |
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| exaggeration for purpose and effect |
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| an affirmation made indirectly by denying its opposite; a special form of understatement |
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| repetition of initial identical consonant or vowel sounds in successive or closely associated words or syllables |
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| an effort to suit sound to sense; words whose pronunciations suggest their meaning; the use of words developed in imitation of the sounds they designate: hiss, slam, whirr, sizzle, etc. |
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| a part represents a whole |
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| something closely associated |
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| a direct and explicit address either to an absent person or to an abstract or nonhuman entity |
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