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| anaphora | the repetition of the same word or phrase throughout a work or a section of a work |
| apostrophe | the addressing of a discourse to a real or imagined person who is not present; also, a speech to an abstraction |
| figurative | the type of language that includes words and expressions that conform to a particular pattern or form, such as metaphor, simile, and parallelism |
| hyperbole | a rhetorical figure in which emphasis is achieved through exaggeration |
| metaphor | describes something as though it were actually something else |
| metonymy | substitutes a word or phrase that relates to a thing for the thing itself |
| paradox | a device in which a seeming contradiction is revealed to be truthful and non-contradictory |
| paranomasia | a witty word-play which reveals that words with different meanings have similar or even identical sounds |
| rhetorical | the types of figures or devices that are the tools that make literary works effective, persuasive, and forceful |
| simile | a figure of comparison, using "like" with nouns and "as" with clauses |
| synecdoche | substitutes a part for the whole |
| synesthesia | a rhetorical figure uniting or fusing separate sensations or feelings; the description of one type of perception or thought with words that are appropriate to another |
| tenor | the totality of ideas and attitudes borne by the vehicle |
| understatement | the deliberate underplaying or undervaluing of a thing to create emphasis |
| vehicle | the literal details of the figure |
