Metaphor - He was an onion; to understand him, she had to peel back the layers., Metonymy - I thought his movies were better when they weren’t so Hollywood., Onomatopoeia - When a character is exasperated, they might exclaim, “Sheesh!” That’s both a word to show exasperation and a sound that happens when you sigh loudly., Oxymoron - That strawberry cake was awfully good., Personification - The floorboards groaned under the weight of each step., Pun - “‘Mine is a long and a sad tale!’ said the Mouse, turning to Alice and sighing. ‘It is a long tail, certainly,’ said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse’s tail; ‘but why do you call it sad?’” —Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Simile - It was the first real day of summer, and by the time she came back indoors, she was as red as a tomato., Synecdoche - New England won the game by a touchdown. (Here, New England means New England’s football team.), Alliteration - She sells seashells by the seashore., Antithesis - “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .” —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Apostrophe - “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” —William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Euphemism - Death can be an uncomfortable subject, so we’ve developed many euphemisms to avoid confronting it head-on. Rather than telling a friend that a relative died, you might say they “kicked the bucket,” “passed away,” or are “no longer with us.”, Hyperbole - If I don’t eat soon, I’m going to die of hunger., Irony - One of the characters in your story is a hypochondriac, always convinced that they have an exotic and uncurable disease. An ironic ending for that character would be if they died of a common cold., Litotes - You’re not wrong.,

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