| A | B |
|---|
| pun | play on words |
| allusion | referance to common knowledge |
| metaphore | comparison |
| personification | figure of speech using human like traits to describe an inadimate object |
| paradox | a full statement with 2 contradictory ideas |
| foreshadowing | dropping hints about whats to come |
| simile | a comparison with the words like or as |
| imagery | words giving a mental image |
| figurative language | a non literal statement |
| hyperbole | an obvious exaggeration |
| cliche | a common expression |
| idiom | an expression whose meaning is not predictable from its usual meaning is |
| irony | something one would not expect |
| euphemism | the substitution of a word that is harsh/blunt for one that is milder |
