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a comparison between two unlike things showing a comparison,a similarity using like or as.
the trees as big as a house |
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a comparison between two unlike things showing a similarity not using like or as but saying one is the other.
that man is a giant |
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words that sound like each their meaning.
bang, squish, thump. |
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giving a human like quality to a non human.
the trees wispered in the breese. |
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| use of deseriptive language to portray an image in readers mind |
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The repetition of first consonant sounds.
Wilful waste makes woeful want. |
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the close repetition of similar vowel sounds.
Twinkle Twinkle little star |
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repeating of a key word,phrase or line.
Fallen,Fallen,Fallen,Fallen |
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Figure of speeach based on conscious exaggeration.
He is a mountain of a man. |
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The name of one object is used for that of another.
He took up the cross (he accepted Christianity) |
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a word referring to a part of something,is made as a substitute for the word representing the whole.
He won her hand in marriage. |
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| is a figure of speech in which the absent are adressed as if they were present. |
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Something placed in an inappropriate period of time.
Clock in Julius Caesar |
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| is a reference to persons or things in the Bible,mythology,history or literature. |
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is the placing of contradictory terms next to one another.
military intelligence,jumbo shrimp |
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