Definitions: Chapter 20 – “Figures of Speech”
Simile: an explicit comparison between two things using words such as like, as, than, appears, and seems.
Metaphor: an explicit comparison between two unlike things.
Controlling metaphor: a metaphor that runs through the entire work and determines the form or nature of that work.
Synecdoche: a type of metaphor in which part of something signifies the whole.
Metonymy: a type of metaphor in which something closely related with a subject is substituted for it.
Personification: a form of metaphor in which human characteristics are attributed to non-human things.
Apostrophe: an address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend.
Hyperbole: a boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true.
Paradox: a statement that initially appears to be contradictory but then, upon closer inspection, turns out to make sense (Death, thou shalt die).
Oxymoron: a condensed form of paradox in which two contradictory words are used together (original copy, sweet sorrow).