| Term | Definition |
|---|
| figurative language | is writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally |
| figure of speech | ex: metaphor, simile, alliteration, irony, and hyperbole... etc. (figurative language) |
| paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but that actually maybe true |
| pun | play on words based on the sounds of similar words with very different meanings |
| hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement |
| litotes | contains an understatement for emphasis, therefore the oppoiste of hyperbole |
| simile | figure of speech in which like and as is used to make a comparison b/w two basically unlike ideas |
| metaphor | is a figrue of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else |
| personifaction | a type of figurative language in which non-human subject is given human characteristics |
| apostrope/ authorial | a place, an abstact quality, an idea, or dead or absent person is addressed as if present and capable of understanding |
| metonymy | a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object of concept for that of another to which it is related of which it is part of (count heads instead of count people) |
| synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special |
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