ABSTRACT
Repetition: The act or process of repeating something: “I have asked you over, and over, and over again, not to take my picture.” Rhyme: Words that sound alike and words that echo each other: “Why are you not saying what you are seeing?” Simile: A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared: “In the Olympics of 2000, Marion Jones ran like a deer and won three gold medals.” Accumulation: The act of collecting or amassing things, to pile up Zeugma: From the Greek zeugos, meaning “yoke” or “means of binding.” When a word is used to modify two or more other words although its use is only correct with one of the words: “The digital camera and books were on top of the computer.” Antithesis: The direct opposite. The juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas: “We were promised freedom but kept in slavery.” Antanaclasis: To reflect, bend back, in the opposite direction. A figure of speech is repeated with contrary meaning: “The condemned against hope, believed in hope.” Paradox: A statement that seems at first contradictory is found to be true: “We will have peace if we have to fight for it.”
