| Term | Definition |
|---|
| personification | "A lie gets halfway around the world before it gets a chance to PUT ITS PANTS ON." |
| prosthesis | "I BEweep my misfortune." (Add extra syllable) |
| zuegma | "If we don't HANG together, we will HANG separately." (Use one verb for different subjects/meanings) |
| paradox | juxtaposition of contradictory ideas "I always lie" |
| metaphor | implied comparison between two DISSIMILAR things |
| anaphora | MY TRIP was hot. MY TRIP was fun. MY TRIP was the time of my life. (Repetition of word at beginning of successive sentences) |
| antimetabole | "One should eat to live, not live to eat." (Repetition in reverse order.) |
| asyndeton | "I was hungry, tired, dying." (Omission of connectors) |
| antithesis | "Americans in need are not strangers, they are citizens, not problems, but priorities." (Expression of contrasting ideas in parallel structure.) |
| anadiplosis | "Talent is adornment; adornment of concealment." (Repeating last word of clause at the beginning of successive clause.) |
| apposition | "Alexander, the COPPERSMITH, did much evil." (Following a noun with another explanatory noun) |
| polysyndeton | "I went to the store AND the bank AND the zoo AND the office AND the hospital." |
| ellipsis | "Their soldiers killed six of the villagers, OURS eight." (omitting an implied word from previous clause) |
| epistrophe | "If it looks like a DUCK, walks like a DUCK, sounds like a DUCK" (repetition of same word at end of successive clauses) |
| pun | homophone used in a different sense for word play |
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