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1 Write Down Everything!!

2 ssss  The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as in “on scrolls of silver snowy sentences” (Hart Crane).

3  The act or process or an instance of repeating or being repeated.

4  The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs; for example, “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills” (Winston S. Churchill).

5  Direct contrast; opposition. The direct or exact opposite: Hope is the antithesis of despair.  A figure of speech in which sharply contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in a balanced or parallel phrase or grammatical structure, as in “Hee for God only, shee for God in him” (John Milton).

6  A question to which no answer is expected, often used for rhetorical effect.

7  A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “a sea of troubles” or “All the world's a stage” (Shakespeare).  One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol: “Hollywood has always been an irresistible, prefabricated metaphor for the crass, the materialistic, the shallow, and the craven” (Neal Gabler).

8  same as metaphor, just using “like” or “as”.

9  A set of mental pictures or images. The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.

10  A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form, as in Hunger sat shivering on the road or Flowers danced about the lawn.

11  The act of alluding; indirect reference: Without naming names, the candidate criticized the national leaders by allusion.  An instance of indirect reference: an allusion to classical mythology in a poem.

12  A rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures, as in “Each throat/Was parched, and glazed each eye” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge).

13  A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, as in the use of Washington for the United States government or of the sword for military power.

14  something that draws attention away from the central issue, a misleading clue

15  a statement or an argument based on false or invalid inference.  A false notion (idea).

16  obvious and intentional exaggeration. An extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”

17  a general statement, idea, or principle.  A proposition asserting something to be true either of all members of a certain class or of an indefinite part of that class.


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