SIMILE - SPEAKER SAYS ONE THING BUT

- USING LIKE/AS MEANS ANOTHER

METAPHOR LITOTES
- CONTAINS IMPLIED COMPARISON - INTENTIONAL USE OF
UNDERSTATEMENT
PERSONIFICATION Ex. Your apartment is not unclean
- HUMAN QUALITIES TO OBJECTS
METONYMY
HYPERBOLE - CHOSEN BCUZ IT’S WELL KNOWN
- EXAGERRATED TERMS FOR CHARACTERISITC OF A WORD
EMPHASIS Ex. But break my heart, for I must hold my
tongue.
ONOMATOPOEIA
- IMITATING THE SOOUND OF AN OXYMORON
OBJECT - W OPPOSITE TERMS ARE JOINED
Ex. Living death
APOSTROPHE
- DIRECTLY ADDRESSING A PARADOX
NONEXISTENT PERSON/OBJ - SEEMS ABSURD BUT CAN BE TRUE

ALLUSION SYMBOLISM
- REFERENCE TO FICTION, - USING OBJ./WORD TO REPRESENT
FOLKLORE, HISTORICAL EVENTS ABSTRACT IDEA
ETC. Ex. Dove-peace

ANTITHESIS SYNECDOCHE
- 2 CONTRASTING IDEAS - PART OF SOMETHING REPRESENTS
Ex. Give every man thy ear, but few thy THE WHOLE
voice -ex. I have 4 mouths to feed at home.

CHIASMUS UNDERSTATEMENT
- 2 OR MORE CLAUSES BALANCE W/ - REPRESENTS SOMETHING AS LESS
EACH OTHERS BUT REVERESED THAN WHAT IT IS
Ex. You should live to eat, not eat to live A. COMEDIC
- ADD HUMOR TO SERIOUS
IRONY SITUATIONS
- UNEXPECTEC OUTCOME B. MODEST
A. DRAMATIC IRONY - USED INSTEAD OF BRGGING
- AUDIENCE KNOWS SOMETHING C. POLITE
THAT CHARACTERS DON’T - DISAGREE BUT STILL REMAINS
B. SITUATIONAL IRONY POLITE
- EX. THE FIRE STATION IS BURNING.
C. VERBAL IRONY