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| allusion | a reference to a well known person, place, event, literary word, or work of art |
| analogy | an explanation based upon a comparison that explains or describes one subject by pointing out its similarities to another subject |
| apostrophe | a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an inanimate object or an absent person or a personified quality |
| diction | word choice |
| euphemism | a devise where being indirect replaces directness to avoid embarrassment or unpleasantness |
| hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement |
| idiom | a use of words, a construction peculiar to a given language or an expression that cannot be translated literally into a second language |
| imagery | the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures appealing to one or more of the five senses |
| irony | the general name given to literary technique that involve differences between appearance and reality, expectation and result, or meaning and intention |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else |
