Figures Of Speech

Question	Answer
Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds
Alliteration	Repetition of the same sound at beginning of words
Hyperbole	Gross exaggeration
Irony	Saying the opposite of what is meant
Metaphor	Comparison without the use of as or like
Simile	Comparison with the use of as or like
Metonymy	one word that has a very similar meaning can be used for another
Onomatopoeia	word that sounds like what it means
Paradox	contradiction within the same sentence
Personification	giving human qualities to inanimate objects
Pun	play on words
Synecdoche	one thing is meant to represent the whole
Understatement	the thing discussed is made to seem much less important than it really is
Antithesis	contradiction that pits two ideas against each other in a balanced way
Euphemism	Words that are used to soften the message
Oxymoron	puts two words together that seem to contradict each other

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