Language Features

3. a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”
4. repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences
6. used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect
10. a foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter
11. the act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation
12. the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure
15. the act of interjecting
17. the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt
19. the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
21. the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group
22. characterized by a hissing sound;
23. the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications
24. resemblance of sounds
25. an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements

1. of or in the Bible: a Biblical name
2. obvious and intentional exaggeration
5. a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”
7. the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group
8. absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable
9. a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter
13. of, pertaining to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works
14. opposition; contrast: the antithesis of right and wrong
16. a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase
18. very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language
20. a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance