20 figures of speech examples

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   A figure of speech is an exaggerated tool that accomplishes an exceptional result by utilizing phrases in unique ways.
   The Top 20 Figures:
   Alliteration
   The repetition of a primary consonant sound
   Anaphora
   The repetition of the identical phrase or saying at the starting of successive clauses or verses
   Antithesis
   The adjacency of diverging concepts in balanced phrases
   Apostrophe
   Breaking off discourse to address some missing individual or thing, some abstract value, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character
   Assonance
   Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words
   Chiasmus
   A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.
   Euphemism
   The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit.
   Hyperbole
   An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect
   Irony
   The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea
   Litotes
   A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
   Metaphor
   An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common
   Metonymy
   A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
   Onomatopoeia
   The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
   Oxymoron
   A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side
   Paradox
   A statement that appears to contradict itself
   Personification
   A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.
   Pun
   A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words
   Simile
   A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common
   Synecdoche
   A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole (for example, ABCs for alphabet) or the whole for a part ("England won the World Cup in 1966")
   Understatement
   A figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.

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