the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words. - Example: Fresh fern fronds from the forest.

a stylistic device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses to give them emphasis. - Example: You are lovely, you are gorgeous, you are pretty, you are glorious, you are, you are, you just are!

is a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole or the whole of something is used to represent part of it. - Examples: Sixty hands voted. (Note: The part hand is used to refer to the whole person.) - The country supported the president. (Note: The word country is used to refer to part of the country, namely, most people.)

the repetition of words with a change in letter or sound. - Example: She is somebody from somewhere, and she knows something. (Note: The word somebody becomes somewhere and something upon repetition.)

is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. - Example: using "Malacañang" to refer to the president or the government administration or saying "a hand" to mean "help"

is a figure of speech that refers to the juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas. It involves the bringing out of a contrast in the ideas by an obvious contrast in the words, clauses, or sentences within a parallel grammatical structure. - Example: Too many choices, too little time.

is a figure of speech that uses exaggerations to create emphasis or effect; it is not meant to be taken literally. - Example: I told vou a million times to clean your room!

is a figure of speech used to express a mild, indirect, or vague term to substitute for a harsh, blunt, or offensive term. - Example: saying "passed away" for "died; or "in between jobs" to mean "unemployed*

refers to a figure of speech in which statements gradually descend in order of importance. - Examples: He got back his dignity, his job, and his company car. In the car crash, she lost her life, her car, and her cell phone. 9. Antiphrasis is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is us

refers to a concise, witty, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. - Example: Oscar Wilde's "I can resist everything but temptation," or "I am not young enough to know everything.

is a figure of speech by which something is referred to by a conventional phrase that enumerates several of its constituents or traits. - Examples: saying "young and old" to refer to the whole population or saying "flesh and bone" to mean the whole body.

a figure of speech that quickly stimulates different ideas and associations using only a couple of words; making indirect reference. - Example: Describing someone as an "Adonis" makes an allusion to the handsome young shepherd loved by the goddess of love and beauty herself in the Greek myths.

is the omission of a word or words. It refers to constructions in which words are left out of a sentence, often to avoid redundancy, but in a manner that a sentence can still be understood. - Example: Rizal spoke seven languages, Bonifacio only two. [Note: Bonifaco only (spoke) two (languages).]

is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used to mean the opposite of its normal meaning to create ironic humorous effect.

is a figure of speech in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form. - Example: People must live to work, not just work to live.

is the use of a harsh, more offensive word instead of one considered less harsh. - Example: Calling the television an "idiot box"; or a homosexual man, a "faggot."

is an exclamatory rhetorical figure of speech in which a speaker or writer breaks off and directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea. - Example: Oh, moon! You have seen everything!

is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the end of neighboring clauses to give them emphasis. - Example:A government of the people, by the people, for the people. (Note: The phrase the people is repeated twice after it was first mentioned.)

or paronomasia) involves a word play that suggests two or more meanings by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. are constructions used in jokes and idioms whose usage and meaning are entirely local to a particular language and its culture. - Example: Atheism is a nonprophet institution. (Note: The word prophet is put in place of its homophone profit, changing the common phrase nonprofit institution.)

is a figure of speech directly comparing two unlike things, often introduced with the word like or as. - Examples: A smile as big as the sun. - She prays like a mantis.

is a rhetorical device in which a word is repeated and whose meaning changes in the second instance. - Example: The excuse is sound, nothing but sound. (Note: The word sound in the first mention means "reasonable" while in the second mention, it simply refers to the sensation in the ear. Also, nothing but sound is an expression that means

is a figure of speech that refers to the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences. - Example: A certain purple curtain, captain. (Note: cer in certain, pur in purple, and cur in curtain. Also: tain in certain, curtain, and captain.)

Is a figure of speech in which the arguments previously stated are presented again in a forceful manner. - Example: She has an attractive face, gorgeous smile, lovely hair, charming eyes, exquisite nose, flawless skin, a gracefulness in her movements; in short, she is divinely beautiful.

a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. - Examples: Instead of saying that someone is "ugly," you can say that someone is "not very pretty." Instead of saying that the situation is "bad," you can say that it is "not good."

is a figure of speech in which reference is made to something by means of another thing that is remotely related to it, either through a causal relationship, or through another figure of speech. - Example: You've got to catch the worm tomorrow. (Note: "The early bird catches the worm" is a common proverb advocating getting an early start on the day to achieve success. By referring to this saying, you are compared to the bird, so that tomorrow, you will awaken early in order to achieve success.)

is a figure of speech that combines incongruous or contradictory terms. - Examples: "open secret,» "virtual reality," and "sacred profanities"

refers to a figure of speech in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance - Example: Three things will remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

is a figure of speech in which there is a contradiction of expectation between what is said and what is really meant. It is characterized by an incongruity, a contrast, between reality and appearance. There are three types of irony: verbal, dramatic, and situational.

a figure of speech in which a word, phrase, or clause is placed at the beginning or the end of a sentence. Kind of how that character Yoda in "Star Wars" speak. - Example: Too lazy to find examples, I am. But get the picture, do you?

is a figure of speech used by writers or speakers to deliberately make a situation seem less important or serious than it really is. Examples: A nurse about to give an injection saying, "It will sting a bit." To describe a disappointing experience, a participant may say, "It was. different."

refers to a figure of speech where an earlier expression refers to or describes a forward expression - Example: If you go there now, the party will start. (Note: The word there is a cataphora because it refers to party which hasn't been mentioned before that point.)

is a statement that says the same thing twice in different ways, or a statement that is unconditionally true by the way it is phrased. - Examples: Free gift , Advance planning

is a figure of speech in which the speaker raises a question and then answers it. - Example: Is it a bird? No! Is it a plane? No, it's Superman!

is a figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to an abstract quality, animal, or inanimate object. - Example: Red punctuates and makes bold statements, says something, and means it like an exclamation point!

is a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things or objects that are poles apart from each other but have some characteristics common between them. - Examples: The planet is your playground. - The Lord is my shepherd.