Sound Devices Flashcards
The repetition of the same sound occuring at the beginning of words close together in a line or series
Alliteration
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines
Anaphora
Is the use of informal words and phrases in a piece of writing. Colloquial usage is conversational and may include regional dialect vernacular and slang
Colloquialism
The language used by the people from a specific area class or other group
Dialect
a word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing like a sound effect. Any word or words that helped the reader HEAR the sounds are examples of onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia
The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter
Parallelism
Two opposite ideas are put together to achieve a contrasting effect
Antithesis
