WORD DEFINITION

Simile

- is a comparison between unlike things that have one quality in common on which the comparison is based. The comparison is generally indicated by the expression like or as

Metaphor

- is an implied comparison between things essentially different but having one quality in common on which the comparison is built. The metaphor is an indirect comparison; the words like and as are not used.

Personification

- is a figure of speech that describes intelligence or feelings to abstract ideas or inanimate things.

Hyperbole

- is an exaggeration to achieve an effect .

Apostrophe

is a figure of speech in which the writer directly addresses an absent person as if he were alive, an inanimate object or an abstract idea as if it had life.

Metonymy

- is a figure of speech in which one object is used to represent or recall another .

Synecdoche

- is a figure of speech in which a part may be used or made to mean the whole.

Allusion

- is a figure of speech in which a reference is made to some familiar fact in history, literature or religion.

Paradox

- a statement that is contradictory on the surface but often expresses a deeper truth.

Irony

- is a figure of speech in which one thing is said when the opposite is meant.