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Chiasmus is a figure of speech with two phrases which are parallel but inverted to one another.
"You can take a lion out of the wild, but you cannot take the wild out of a lion." |
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Author purposely leaves out a conjuction in a sentece while keeping grammatical accuracy.
"Eat, Sleep, Work." |
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Using the same letters to create a new word.
"Debit Card" "Bad Credit" |
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Lending a human quality to an object or non-human being.
"Angry skies with roaring thunder" |
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Forming a rhyme in one line or verse.
"We were the first that ever burst" |
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Excessive language and surplus words to convey a meaning that could be said through fewer words.
"I am mad"
"I am extremely disappointed in the way todays events seemed to go against me" |
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Two sentences of contrasting meanings in close proximity to one another.
"One small step for a man but a giant leap for mankind" |
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A person, concept, place, idea, theme are parallel to another.
"Satan and God, who he discusses by placing their traits in comparison with one another to highlight their differences." |
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Practice of not using the formal word for something and instead using another word linked to the formal word.
"Washington D.C is metonymy for the goverment of the United States" |
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Phrase/word noted for possessing an extensive amount of understood loveliness or melody in sound created.
"Cellar door" |
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Postive characters rewarded while negative ones are penalized.
Harry Potter is the nemesis to Lord Voldemort. |
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A single chunk of lines in poetry.
“The greedy paddy cat,
Chased after the mice;
She got so round and fat,
But it tasted so nice” |
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Making fun of human weakness or flaws.
South Park makes fun of issues in the United States. |
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Something refers to the whole or vice versa.
"Weary feet in the walk of life" refers to lifes journey of highs and lows |
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Added to a persons name to state a special quality
"Alexander the great" |
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