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Paronomasia: pun in which similar-sounding words but words having a different meaning are used. Pathetic fallacy: ascribing human conduct and feelings to nature. Personification: attributing or applying human qualities to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena. Pleonasm: the use of more words than is necessary for clear expression.
A simile (/ ˈ s ɪ m əl i /) is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two things. [1] [2] Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while metaphors often create an implicit comparison (i.e. saying something "is" something else).
Personification: Using comparative metaphors and similes to give characteristics to abstract concepts. Taken from Act I, Scene II of Romeo and Juliet: "When well-appareled April on the heel / Of limping winter treads." [16] Polyptoton: Words derived from the same root in a sentence. "Not as a call to battle, though embattled we are."
The easiest stylistic device to identify is a simile, signaled by the use of the words "like" or "as". A simile is a comparison used to attract the reader's attention and describe something in descriptive terms. Example: "From up here on the fourteenth floor, my brother Charley looks like an insect scurrying among other insects." (from "Sweet ...
A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels". Metaphor may also be used for any rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects
"Somethin Tells Me" is a song by American singer Bryson Tiller. It was released on May 11, 2017, as the first single from his second studio album, True to Self (2017). [ 1 ] Tiller co-wrote the song with its producer T-Minus .
DETROIT (Reuters) -U.S. automakers Ford Motor and General Motors will donate $1 million each, along with vehicles, to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's January inauguration, company ...
Over "smoothed-out" production [4] and his signature trap-infused drums, [5] Tiller details a one-sided love, coming to terms with "forever" not being for always, because he and his lovers' emotions are worlds apart, [6] due to trust issues and dishonesty. [5]