A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.

Chaismus Litotes Extended Metaphor Anticlimax

A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant (n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. Repetition of consonant sounds cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.

A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.") a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. Using the same conjunction lots of times