Figures of Speech with Example

Shamsuddeen Zakariya

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About this app

This app covers the most common figures of speech or literary terms with their examples and explanations.

The contents of this app are


1. Accumulatio
2. Adianoeta
3. Adnomination
4. Adynaton
5. Aetiologia
6. Aganactesis
7. Allegory
8. Alliteration
9. Allusion
10. Ambiguity
11. Anadiplosis
12. Analogy
13. Anangeon
14. Anaphora
15. Anastrophe
16. Anesis
17. Antanaclasis
18. Antanagoge
19. Anthypophora
20. Anticlimax
21. Antimetabole
22. Antiphrasis
23. Antistrophe
24. Antithesis
25. Aphorism
26. Aposiopesis
27. Apostrophe
28. Asyndeton
29. Cataphora
30. Chiamus
31. Climax
32. Dysphemism
33. Ellipsis
34. Epanalepsis
35. Epigram
36. Epiphora
37. Euphemism
38. Hyperbole
39. Innuendo
40. Irony
41. Litotes
42. Merism
43. Metaphor
44. Metonymy
45. Onomatopoeia
46. Oxymoron
47. Paradox
48. Parallelism
49. Personification
50. Rhetorical Question
51. Sarcasm
52. Simile
53. Synecdoche
54. Tapinosis
55. Tautology
56. Understatement
57. Zeugma