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a word or term which achieves more imaginative effects than simple or literal language. Figures of speech are widely used, not only in poetry but in newspapers and newspaper headlines. See alliteration, allusion, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, euphemism, hyperbole, idiom, innuendo, irony, litotes, malapropism, meiosis, metonymy, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, paradox, personification, pun and synecdoche.
a well-known saying, which is generally taken to be true and contains some kind of wisdom about...
a sentence that has one main clause and one or more subordinate clauses (more than one finite...
a male character in a literary work, often the protagonist, that is admired or identified with...
the form of the verb that indicates whether the action in a sentence takes place in the past,...
a style of writing and speaking that is descriptive, e.g. The muddy brown waters of the great...