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  1. 1. a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing; "downsizing" instead of making cuts or "relieve oneself" for urinating
  2. 5. when a part of something is used to refer to the whole
  3. 8. the expression of one's meaning using language that normally signifies the opposite, generally to humorous or emphatic effect; if referring to a situation, it is contrary to what is expected
  4. 9. placing two things side by side so as to highlight their differences; wealth and poverty, darkness and light, beauty and ugliness
  5. 11. figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another
  6. 13. the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
  7. 15. the repetition of a word at the beginning of successive clauses
  8. 16. a figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others in different senses or to two others of which it grammatically suits only one; "caught the train and a cold"
  9. 18. a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words, often understood only by certain groups of people
  10. 19. a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly; the feeling, positive or negative, attached to a word apart from its literal meaning
  11. 21. an extreme exaggeration
  12. 23. a realization
  13. 25. an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect reference
  14. 27. a list or series of words, phrases, or clauses that is connected with the repeated use of the same conjunction
  15. 28. the mood implied by an author's word choice and the way that the text can make a reader feel
  16. 29. giving human qualities to non-human things
  17. 33. when something is used to represent something related to it
  18. 34. an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned
  19. 35. ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed through its contrary
  20. 36. literature that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning
  21. 37. a speech to a person that is not present or a personified object
  22. 38. main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work which is conveyed by an author and interpreted by a reader
  23. 39. the reversing of the order of words/sentence structure in the second of two parallel phrases or sentences
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  1. 2. the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose which correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.
  2. 3. a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true
  3. 4. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what it is named
  4. 5. something that stands for or suggests something else; it represents something beyond literal meaning
  5. 6. literature intended to teach the reader
  6. 7. a comparison between two things in order to explain or clarify; "Life is like a box of chocolates- you never know what you're gonna get."
  7. 10. pairs exact opposite or contrasting ideas in a parallel grammatical structure
  8. 12. a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings
  9. 14. a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, typically someone who has just died
  10. 17. a warning or an indication of a future event
  11. 20. the omitting of conjunctions in a series of words, phrases, or clauses; "I came. I saw. I conquered."
  12. 22. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
  13. 24. the description of something as having much less of a particular quality than it does; opposite of hyperbole
  14. 26. a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid, often (but not exclusively) using "like" or "as" to link the comparison
  15. 30. one sense (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch) is used to describe another
  16. 31. use of different words to say the same thing twice in the same statement
  17. 32. the omitting of words in a clause