Category - Example Sentences

Situational irony is a literary device in which an action, role, or plan produces the opposite of...

Sibilance is a sound device in which hissing consonant sounds such as s, sh, and z repeat in nearby...

Sarcasm is a figure of speech in which a speaker praises or thanks someone while meaning the...

A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in which a speaker asks a question for effect and...

A portmanteau is a type of word formation in which parts of two words are clipped and blended into...

Pleonasm is a figure of speech in which a speaker uses more words than the meaning needs, as when a...