Candace's+Definitions


 * Apostrophe**: the sign ('), as used: to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word


 * Personification**: Giving human like qualities to inanimate objects


 * Synthesia**: A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.


 * Hyperbole**: Using exaggeration for emphasis or effect


 * Understandment**: To state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out


 * Litotes**: A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite


 * Metonymy**: Is the use of a word for a concept with which the original concept behind this word is associated


 * Synecdoche**: Figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part


 * Paradox**: A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth


 * Oxymoron**: A figure of speech that is seeming like contradictory


 * Allusion**: An incidental mention of something


 * Metaphor**: A figure of speech where a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable


 * Similie**: A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"


 * Implied Metaphor**: A less direct metaphor


 * Analogy**: A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based