Figures of speech in literature

True statement or statements that seem to lead to a contradiction or to a situation that defies intuition

FOS in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something associated with that thing

When a speaker or writer breaks off and directs speech in an abstract direction, to a person not present or to a thing.

When a noun or word is followed by another noun or phrase that renames or identifies it. It is always used with a comma.

Figure of speech in which words that naturally belong together are separated from each other for emphasis or effect

It is the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences for emphasis

It involves speaking of an inanimate object, or an abstract concept, as if it were a living entity

Rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, for emphasis.

figure of speech in which a word is separated or repeated by way of emphasis. In that great victory, Caesar was Caesar.”

Poetic catalogue of a woman’s admirable physical features: "What tongue can her perfections tell?”

It’s about the message that the husband sends his wife.

figure of speech in which a subject is compared to another subject. They use words as like, as, resemble.

W/ a first object is described as being or precisely equal to a second object, although in a literal sense they are not.

The central idea the poem as a whole conveys.

Imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialize an original work

Something that causes a character to act in a certain way

literary device in which a part of something is substituted for the whole (as hired hand for "worker")

Repetition of words derived from the same root but with different endings “I dreamed a dream in times gone by"

True love can last forever or make people suffer

a word or phrase that is a metaphor for something simpler. Eg: Calling a ship a "sea-steed,"

When life is attributed to an inanimate thing or natural object.

Presence of certain character, types, objects, settings in diverse genres and periods of folklore and literature.

It has to do with what the poem is about in general terms

Confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious