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1.ALLITERATION
Good men are gruff and grumpy, cranky, crabbed, and cross.
2ANAPHORA
Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.
We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air.
3.ANTITHESES
Everybody doesnt like something, but nobody doesnt like Sara Lee.
Hillary has soldiered on, damned if she does, damned if she doesnt, like most powerful women,
expected to be tough as nails and warm as toast at the same time.
4. APOSTROPHE
Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate
object, or a nonexistent character.
Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone,Without a dream in my heart,Without a love on my own.
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,For,
those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow,Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
5. ASSONANCE
The spider skins lie on their sides, translucent and ragged, their legs drying in knots.
6. CHIASMUS
A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts
reversed.
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
In the end, the true test is not the speeches a president delivers; its whether the president delivers on
the speeches.
7.EUPHEMISM
Well see you when you get back from image enhancement camp.
8.HYPERBOLE
An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened
effect.
I was helpless. I did not know what in the world to do. I was quaking from head to foot, and could have
hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far.
I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave
it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.
9.IRONY
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the
meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.
I have no doubt your theatrical performance will receive the praise it so richly deserves.
10.LITOTES
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its
opposite.
11.METAPHOR
An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
Love is a lie.
12.METONYMY
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely
associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around
it.
Detroit is still hard at work on an SUV that runs on rain forest trees and panda blood.
I stopped at a bar and had a couple of double Scotches. They didnt do me any good. All they did was
make me think of Silver Wig, and I never saw her again.
13.ONOMATOPOEIA
The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff. Ding-dong, ding-dong. The little train rumbled over the tracks.
14.OXYMORON
16.PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or
abilities.
17.PUN
A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense
or sound of different words.
A vulture boards a plane, carrying two dead possums. The attendant looks at him and says, Im sorry,
sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.
18.SIMILE
A stated comparison (usually formed with like or as) between two fundamentally dissimilar things
that have certain qualities in common.
You know life, life is rather like opening a tin of sardines. Were all of us looking for the key.
19.SYNECDOCHE
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole (for example, ABCsfor alphabet) or the
whole for a part (England won the World Cup in 1966).
The sputtering economy could make the difference if youre trying to get a deal on a new set of
wheels.
20.UNDERSTATEMENT
A figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or
serious than it is.
The graves a fine and private place,But none,I think,do there embrace.
I am just going outside and may be some time.