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the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. It is used in poems to create emphasis on a situation.

tusen takk

Las mujeres beben agua

A figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two.

kinda like a simile but not a simile

personification

Jeg beklager

Assonance

colloquialism

Strayan

bokmål

A figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.

A journey

French toast

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

a figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory.

The act of bass slaping

A fire rap album by based Q

The flux capacitor

Gwuiyun's favourite food

a stylistic literary device identified by the repeated sound of the first consonant in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables of a phrase.

cliché

French pastry

he deliberate choice of words to elicit emotion (usually to influence).

Spain was one of the most powerful nations in the world around the 1500s. At this time, different nations would race each other to be the first to settle in and claim different areas. According to historians, there were three objectives for taking the Philippine islands. First and foremost, it was seen as an opportunity to spread the Roman Catholic church, which had become quite powerful in Europe. The other objectives may have been to gain wealth through the spice trade in Asia, and also to gain political power by conquering and laying claim to as many lands as possible.