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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 rhythmic foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, e.g. There...
a number of pictures (or elements of pictures) pasted together in such a way as to make a new...
a punctuation mark which links two or more words: step-sister; brother-in-law.
an essay that is based on deep thought, involving personal interpretation of things and/or...