1.Alliteration – is meant to be more than a tonque twister, though.
Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. 2.Anaphora – is the repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines of writing or speech. Example: “I want my money right now, right here, all right?” 3.Assonance – takes place when two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds. Example: “Men sell the wedding bells.” 4.Hyperbole – is the use of obvious and deliberate exaggeration. Example: I’m so angry, I could kill him! 5.Irony – is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from actual meaning of the words. Example: I saw a fish drowning. 6.Metaphor – a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar. Example: I am titanium. 7.Simile – is a figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things. Example: He is funny as a monkey. 8.Metonymy – is a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. Example: Let me give you a hand. 9.Onomatopoeia - is a word that actually looks like the sound it makes, and we can almost hear those sounds as we read. Example: Ticktock, ticktock… the sound of the clock was all that could be heard in the hospital waiting room. 10.Paradox - is a statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true premises, leads to an apparently-self-contradictory or logically unacceptable conclusion. Example: Your enemy's friend is your enemy. 11.Personification - is a figure of speech where human qualities are given to non-living objects. Example: My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning. 12.Pun - is a joke that plays on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound the same. Example: You were right, so I left. 13.Synecdoche - is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa. Example: Beautiful are the feet that bring the good news." The Bible 14.Understatement - is the deliberate description of something in a way that makes it seem less important than it actually is. Example: Telling a friend about the expensive trip you just took to Disney World: "It's a little pricy." 15.Antithesis - is the term used to refer to an author's use of two contrasting or opposite terms in a sentence for effect. The two terms are set near each other to enhance or highlight the contrast in opposite meaning. Example: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness." Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities 16.Euphemism - is a word or phrase that is substituted for a word or phrase that is considered to be too straightforward or blunt when referring to something sad, distasteful, or upsetting. Example: Negative patient outcome instead of died. 17.Oxymoron - is a figure of speech in which words or phrases that appear to express opposite thoughts are used in conjunction and describe a situation where both words or phrases are aptly applied. Example: Dark day. Abeguil P. Gerondio ABM 1101 INTRO TO PHIL.
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