Figure of speech

• ALLITERATION:This refers to the repetition of initial similar sounds
• Assonance refers to the repetition of vowel sounds
• Onomatopoeia is the use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning
• Anaphora is when the same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive clauses or verses
• Epiphora is different in that the last word of a verse or sentence is repeated at the beginning of the next one
• A simile is a stated comparison usually using "like" or "as" between two dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common
• A metaphor is an implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something in common
• Metonymy is a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated
• Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for a part
• Personification is a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities
• Hyperbole is an extravagant statement or the use of exaggerated terms for heightened effect
• Understatement is a figure of speech that deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is
• Euphemism refers to the substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit
• A rhetorical question is a question that needs no answer, used to express an intended message to the listener or reader
• Climax is a figure of speech in which a series of phrases or sentences is arranged in ascending order
• Anticlimax is the opposite of Climax
• An oxymoron uses incongruous or contradictory terms usually side by side with each other
• Parallelism refers to repeated syntactical similarities introduced for rhetorical effect
• Sarcasm makes use of words that mean the opposite of what the speaker or writer wants to say, especially to insult someone, show irritation, or be funny
• Irony refers to a statement or situation that is contradicted by the appearance or representation of the idea
• A paradox is a statement that appears to contradict itself
• Apostrophe in literature is when a figure of speech addresses an inanimate object or an absent person
• Prosopopoeia is when an imaginary character or an absent person is represented as speaking
• Allusion is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance
• Litotes is an understatement by using double negatives
• Aphaeresis is the omission of a letter or letters from the beginning of a word
• Syncope is the omission of a letter or letters from the middle of a word
• Apocope is the omission of a letter or letters from the end of a word
• Ellipsis is the omission of a word or words
• Epanalepsis is the repetition of the beginning at the end
• Epizeuxis, or gemination, is the repetition of a word, phrase, or clause in succession with no other words between
• Consonance


  The repetition of consonant sounds