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Personification Symbol

Allegory Oxymoron Hyperbole Litotes

Simile Personification

(the use of) an expression comparing A figure of speech (generally

one thing with another, always considered a type of metaphor) in

including the words ‘as’ or ‘like’. which an inanimate object or

abstraction is given human qualities

Example: or abilities. .

"He was like a cock who thought the Example:

sun had risen to hear him crow."

Adam Bede)

(George Eliot, [inside SpongeBob's mind]

SpongeBob boss: Hurry up! What do

Allegory you think I'm paying you for?

SpongeBob worker: You don't pay me.

A story, play, poem, picture or other work You don't even exist. We're just a

in which the characters and events clever visual.

represent particular qualities or ideas, Symbol

related to morals, religion or politics. A sign, shape or object which is used

Example: to represent something else.

Avatar.

In the movie The Pandora woods is Example:

a lot like the Amazon rainforest (the movie

stops in its tracks for a heavy ecological Acacia

The is often the symbol of the

speech or two), and the attempt to get the Secret Love.

Na'vi to 'cooperate' carries overtones of the

U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan."

(Owen Gleiberman, review of Avatar.

Entertainment Weekly, Dec. 30, 2009) Hyperbole

Oxymoron A way of speaking or writing that makes

Two words used together which someone or something sound bigger,

have, or seem to have, opposite better, more, etc..

meanings. Example:

Example: "My toaster has never once worked

"The best cure for insomnia is to properly in four years. I follow the

get a lot of sleep." instructions and push two slices of

(W.C. Fields) bread down in the slots, and seconds

later they rifle upwards. Once they

Litotes broke the nose of a woman I loved

(the use of) an expression comparing dearly."

one thing with another, always (Woody Allen, "My Speech to the

including the words ‘as’ or ‘like’. The New York Times,

Graduates." Aug.

10, 1979)

Example:

"The grave's a fine a private place,

But none, I think, do there embrace."

(Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy

Mistress")