Apostrophe: "Why God! Why Me!" You can't actully see God but you talk to him like he is there.
Anthropomorism: The talking donkey yelled at the farmer.
Irony: A boy bet his friend that he could blow open the door, and at the time he blew the door opened because someone opened it from the other side.
Metaphor: Your heart is like the sun on a hot day.
Metonymy: I'm "ringing" Your not ringing, your phone is.
Paradox: Saying that your the greatest basketballer but not making the school team.
Personification- When an a idea or thing is given the form of a person. For example the idea of love can be represented by Cupid.
Simile- When two different things are compared. For example saying that "your eyes are like the deep blue sea" would be a simile.
Synecdoche- "all for one and one for all" (the three musketeers) would be an example of a synecdoche.
Tautology- unnecessarily wordy- an example would be "the big, huge, enormous, gargantuan, planet.
Understatement- to show or reference something as less than it is. "the earthquake in Haiti was minor with little damage" would be an understatement.
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