a polite or indirect way of saying something

When the opposite of what you expect to happen happens

When the audience knows more than the characters

An expression that is not meant literally

Hinting that something might happen later

A comparison using "like" or "as"

When someone says something that is the opposite of what they mean

Seemingly contradictory but not

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Euphemism
a polite or indirect way of saying something
Addressing an inanimate object
Giving an inanimate object human characteristics
Using the same consonant sounds over and over
2
Allusion
Using the same consonant sounds over and over
Referencing a different text
Addressing an inanimate object
Giving an inanimate object human characteristics
3
visually descriptive or figurative language
Imagery
Tone
Anaphora
Diction
4
Oxymoron
The moron
A moron
Un Moran
Seemingly contradictory terms
5
Situational Irony
When the audience knows more than the characters
When someone says something that is the opposite of what they mean
When something is funny and different
When the opposite of what you expect to happen happens
6
Dramatic Irony
When someone says something that is the opposite of what they mean
When the audience knows more than the characters
When something is funny and different
When the opposite of what you expect to happen happens
7
Idiom
An expression that is not meant literally
An Idiot
Explaining Language
An exaggeration
8
Foreshadowing
Addressing an inanimate object
A shadow of fore
Hinting that something might happen later
Using the same consonant sounds over and over
9
Simile
A comparison using "like" or "as"
A person showing their teeth
A comparison without using "like" or "as"
Something similar
10
"Tiny tattle tales telling tall tails to try typing" is an example of...
Cheese
Assonance
Allusion
Alliteration
11
Examples of this would be: "Pow" "Bang" "Splash"
Onomatopoeia
Idiom
Allusion
Euphemism
12
Verbal Irony
When someone says something that is the opposite of what they mean
When the opposite of what you expect to happen happens
When the audience knows more than the characters
When something is funny and different
13
Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things or abstractions
Humanizing
Dehumanizing
Peopleing
Personification
14
An exaggeration or overstatement
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Hyperbole
15
Paradox
A pair of boating docks
A pair of Google Docs
Seemingly contradictory but not
A pair of doctors
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A comparison without using "like" or "as"
Stanza
Metaphor
Paradox
Simile

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