#trope__figureofspeech__figure__image  language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
  supertype:  #rhetorical_device  a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
  subtype:  #irony.trope  a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
     subtype:  #dramatic_irony  (theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play
  subtype:  #hyperbole__exaggeration  extravagant exaggeration
  subtype:  #kenning  conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry
  subtype:  #metaphor  a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
     subtype:  #dead_metaphor__frozen_metaphor  a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake')
     subtype:  #mixed_metahor__mixedmetahor  a combination of two or more metaphors that together produce a ridiculous effect
     subtype:  #synesthetic_metaphor__synestheticmetaphor  a metaphor that exploits a similarity between experiences in different sense modalities
  subtype:  #metonymy  substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
     subtype:  #metalepsis  substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another
  subtype:  #oxymoron  conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
  subtype:  #prosopopoeia__personification  representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
  subtype:  #simile  a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')
  subtype:  #synecdoche  substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa
  subtype:  #zeugma  use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one; "`Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave' is an example of zeugma"
     subtype:  #syllepsis__syllepsi  use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one

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