Definition of metaphor , pun , personification
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- A metaphor is a word or phrase used to describe something as if it was something else. A metaphor isn't a comparison – that's a simile, where you say one thing is 'like' another (“Her eyes were like diamonds”). ... Take a look at the example of a metaphor in the speech bubble above.
- a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
- Personification occurs when a thing or abstraction is represented as a person, in literature or art, as an anthropomorphic metaphor.
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Metaphor
metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between two different ideas. Metaphors are often compared with other types of figurative language, such as antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy and simile.
Pun
pun is a figure of speech that plays with words that have multiple meanings, or that plays with words that sound similar but mean different things. The comic novelist Douglas Adams uses both types of pun when he writes: "You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish
personification
Personification occurs when a thing or abstraction is represented as a person, in literature or art, as an anthropomorphic metaphor.