A Flashcards
Accumulation
Accumulation is a stylistic device defined as a list of words embodying similar abstract or physical qualities or meanings, emphasizing the words’ common qualities.
Adynaton
When hyperbole is magnified to such an extent that it is completely unfeasible.
Alliteration
Alliteration is a literary device that reflects repetition in two or more nearby words of initial consonant sounds.
Amplification
Amplification is a rhetorical device writers use to embellish a sentence or statement by adding further information. The objective is to increase the readability and worth of the statement or sentence.
Analogy
An analogy is a figure of speech that creates a comparison by showing how two seemingly different entities are alike, along with illustrating a larger point due to their commonalities. As a literary device, the purpose of analogy is not just to make a comparison, but to provide an explanation as well with additional information or context.
Anaphora
Anaphora is a rhetorical device that features the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences, phrases, or clauses.
Antanaclasis
Antanaclasis is a rhetorical device in which a phrase or word is repeatedly used, though the meaning of the word changes in each case. It is the repetition of a similar word in a sentence with different meanings, or a word is repeated in two or more different senses.
Antimetabole
Antimetabole is a literary term or device that involves repeating a phrase in reverse order. For example:
“You like it; it likes you.”
Antistrophe
Antistrophe is a rhetorical device that involves the repetition of the same words at the end of consecutive phrases, clauses, sentences, and paragraphs.
Antithesis
Antithesis is a literary device that refers to the juxtaposition of two opposing elements through a parallel grammatical structure.
Example:
“Go big or go home.”
Appositive
Appositive is a literary device that appears when a noun or word is followed by another noun or phrase that renames or identifies it.
“(…) go to the butcher’s to buy Queenie’s traditional gift, a good gnawable beef bone.”
Assonance
Assonance is a literary device in which the repetition of similar vowel sounds takes place in two or more words in proximity to each other within a line of poetry or prose.
Asyndeton
