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language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
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trope,
figure,
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rhetorical device a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
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conceit the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride
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irony incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
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hyperbole,
exaggeration extravagant exaggeration
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kenning conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry
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metaphor a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
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metonymy substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
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oxymoron conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
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prosopopoeia,
personification the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
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simile a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')
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synecdoche substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa
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zeugma use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one; "`Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave' is an example of zeugma"
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