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The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables. Ex “You never put a better bit of butter on your knife.”
ALLITERATION-
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses to achieve an effect. ExWe shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender.”
ANAPHORA-
-An opposition or contrast of ideas. Two opposite ideas are put together to achieve an contrasting
effect
Ex Speech is silver, but silence is gold”. “Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing” “Many are called, but few are chosen.”
ANTITHESIS
- When you speak up into an object, an idea, or someone who doesn’t exist as if it is a living person.
Ex “Hello darkness, my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again.” Twinkle, twinide, little star, how I wonder what you are.”
“Oh pillow, thank you for being my shoulder when I’m alone.
APOSTROPHE
Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
Ex beats as it sweeps as it cleans”. “Old age should burn and rave at close of day, Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.”
ASSONANCE-
A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the
parts reversed.
Ex.”I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me.” “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” “Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.”
CHIASMUS-
-A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or unpleasant.
Ex. “Pre-loved” for second hand. “Passed away instead of died. “Sanitation engineer” instead of garbage man. “Healthy” instead of fat
EUPHENISM
-An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened
effect. Ex. am so hungry I could eat a horse.” “I have a million things to do.” “It I can’t buy that new game, I will die.” “I’ll love you, dear, I lover you till China and Africa meet.”
HYPERBOLE
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning.
Types of irony
Situational Irony where actions or events have opposite result from what is expected.
Verbal irony-where someone says the opposite of what they really mean or intend.
Dramatic Irony-occurs when the audience or reader of a text knows something that the characters do not.
IRONY-
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. Ex. If a person is very intelligent, someone might say, “he’s not dumb.” or “he’s not unintelligent. After someone hires you, you
might say “thank you ma’am, you won’t regret it.
LITOTES-
-Involves a comparison between two relatively unlike things without the use of “like” or “as”
METAPHOR
-Which a word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; also, the
rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it. Ex Pen is mightier than the sword. “Let me give you a hand. “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
METONYMY
-The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions
they refer to. Ex. “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is. The firecracker made a loud ka-boom! Both bees and buzzers buzz. The bird’s chirp filled the empty night air.
ONOMATOPOEIA
-A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side. Ex. “A yawn may be
defined as a silent yel.” “O miserable abundance. O beggarly riches!”
OXYMORON
-Contrary to expectations, existing belief or perceived opinion. It is a statement that appears to be self
contradictory. Ex. “War is peace.” “Freedom is slavery.” “Ignorance is strength.
PARADOX
