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3. An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly
4. question a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered
6. A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else
7. a consonant characterized by a hissing sound
8. A newly coined word or expression
9. The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman
11. A mild or indirect word or expression for one too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
14. In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables (e.g., penitence, reticence).
16. metaphor A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.

1. A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
2. An essential or urgent thing
3. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
5. The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle).
10. An instance of using a word, phrase, or clause more than once in a short passage-dwelling on a point.
12. Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
13. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
15. A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind