- what is said becomes the opposite of what is intended

- saying something stronger than what you are supposed to say - exaggeration

smell, includes fragrance or odor

- direct comparison - have some features in common - can be bruef as two words

- readers knows what the charactets in the story or play do not know

- statement - in contrast to the meaning apparently expressed

- a sound which mimics the sound it denotes - present in almost every language around the world - words that pertain to the sound

author’s use of language to represent experiences or sensation of taste

- part of something is used to refer to its whole (body parts)

- author or speaker uses descriptive, vibid language to create ideas and evoke mental pictures - senses and emotions

- used to persuade or subtly influence the audience - it’s a question asked not for the answer

- a joke that makes a play on words - homonyms

focuses kn the way things sounds

physical attributes of a person objects and place

what we can feel when we touch something

- giving human emotions - inanimate objects - animals - ideas

- most well known - most used - indirect comparison - like, as

- a paradoxical statement combines two elements that in ordinary usage are opposites - two contradictory words

- occurence of a speech sound in a series of words - mostly applicable to consonants - tongue twisters

- subs of one word for another word which is closely related

- logically contradictory absurd - a group of words or even sentence

- outcomes turns out to be the complete opposite of what was expected