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Repetition of initial consonant sound
-"Peck of pickled peppers" |
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Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
- MLK "I Have a Dream" |
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| A group of words with a subject and predicate |
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| Any small group of words within a sentence or a clause |
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Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases or clauses.
- "you're hot then you're cold, you're yes then you're no, you're in then you're out..." |
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Addressing some absent or nonliving thing as if present and capable of understanding.
- "Twinkle, twinkle, little star..." |
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Repetition of similar vowel sounds in neighboring words.
- "I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless" |
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Verbal pattern in which the second half of the expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed.
- "You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget." |
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The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit; "glossing over"
- "passed away" for "died" |
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Substitution of a more offensive term for one considered less so.
- "kicked the bucket" for "died" |
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Exaggeration used for effect or emphasis; an extravagant phrase
- "It's going to take forever to read this book!" |
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A set expression of 2 or more words that mean something other than the literal meaning of its individual words.
- "If we play our cards right..." |
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| Vivid description that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses. |
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| The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; a statement of situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea. |
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Figure of speech containing an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating (or denying its opposite)
- "Not bad at all," "Not unlike," "You are not wrong" |
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an implied comparison that is made between 2 unlike things that actually have something in common.
-“The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner.” |
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Substituting one word or phrase for another with which it is closely related (“crown” for “royalty”).
- "the suits" "Hollywood" |
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| use of words (such as “hiss” or “murmur”) that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or associations they refer to |
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when incongruous or contradicting terms appear side by side; a compressed paradox.
- Jumbo shrimp, along together |
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a figure of speech in which a statement appears to contradict itself.
- “The swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.” (Henry David Thoreau, Walden) |
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a trope or figure of speech (generally considered a type of metaphor) in which an inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities or abilities.
- “Oreo: Milk’s favorite cookie” |
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A play on words, either on different senses of the same word or on the similar sense or sound of different words.
- "Kings worry about a receding heir line." |
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A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as.
- "Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong.“ (slogan of Pan-American Coffee Bureau) |
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A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole (for example, ABCs for alphabet) or the whole for a part ("England won the World Cup in 1966").
- “Give us this day our daily bread.” |
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A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.
- "I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.“ (Holden Caulfield in The Catcher In The Rye, by J. D. Salinger) |
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