The Top 20 Figures of Speech
- Alliteration
The repetition of an initial consonant sound. - Anaphora
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. (Contrast with epiphora and epistrophe.) - Antithesis
The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. - Apostrophe
Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character. - Assonance
Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words. - Chiasmus
A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed. - Euphemism
The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit. - Hyperbole
An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect. - Irony
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea. - Litotes
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. - Metaphor
An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common. - Metonymy
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it's closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it. - Onomatopoeia
The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. - Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side. - Paradox
A statement that appears to contradict itself. - Personification
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities. - Pun
A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words. - Simile
A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common. - Synecdoche
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole (for example, ABCs foralphabet) or the whole for a part ("England won the World Cup in 1966"). - Understatement
A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.
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