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When we talk about synecdoche, we talk about a figure of speech in which one only uses a part of an expression but mean the whole expression.  It is a shortening which is understood because it is [...]

Antithesis – quite a mouthful of a word. It is a figure of speech used in a single sentence in which a  person, a characteristic or a thing is stated to be the direct opposite of something [...]

A cliche is defined as such: cli·ché noun a phrase or expression that has been used so often that it is no longer original or interesting, something that is so commonly used in books, stories, [...]

“I am a deeply superficial person.” Andy Warhol An oxymoron: – a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings – a combination of contradictory or [...]