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Figures of speech, Names, image - Coggle Diagram
Figures of speech
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Irony: Convey the opposite of their literal meaning, where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.
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Chiasmus: Verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first, but reversed.
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Understatement: Figure of speech in which a writer/speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important than it is.
Apostrophe: Directly addressing a nonexistent person or an inanimate object as though it were a living being.
Pun: Play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.
Simile: Stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.
Personification: Figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.
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Onomatopoeia: The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
Metonymy: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated.
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