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• Oxymoron

  Using/combining words with opposite meaning
• Irony

  Expectation vs reality
• Assonance

  Repetition of vowel sounds
• Euphemism

  Indirect words to replace blunt words
• Paradox

  Something that does not make sense but can be both true and false
• Synecdoche

  Using part of something to talk about the whole thing
• Metonymy

  Referred to by the name of something related to it
• Allusion

  Indirect reference to a noun with significance
• Antithesis

  Two opposite ideas put together to show a strong contrast
• Apostrophe

  Talking to something not real or absent
• Climax

  Arrangement of words used to increase importance
• Zeugma

  Words with double duty in a sentence
• Epigram

  Short and clever statements
• Litotes

  Denying its opposite
• Anthropomorphism

  Giving human traits and behaviours to inanimate objects
• Chiasmus

  Words that are repeated in reverse order in a sentence