| Term | Definition |
|---|
| allegory | an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity |
| symbol | something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible |
| synecdoche | understanding one thing with another; the use of a part for the whole or the whole for the part |
| allusion | a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication |
| personification | the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. |
| understatement | a statement that says less than what is meant |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration |
| simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') |
| metonymy | substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads') |
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