stylistic device
technique used to give an auxiliary meaning, idea, or feeling to a literal message, including assonance, consonance and alliteration
allegory
narrative, whether in prose or verse, in which a character, place or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences
synecdoche
use of a term for a part of something to refer to the whole or vice versa
assonance
repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences; one of the building blocks of verse
epithet
descriptive term
personification
representation of a thing or abstraction as a person
anadiplosis
Type of linguistic repetition
analogy
linguistic process
allusion
figure of speech using indirect reference
anastrophe
figure of speech
apostrophe
address to a person often not present or a personified object
Symploce
figure of speech
epanorthosis
figure of speech that signifies emphatic word replacement
hypallage
also known as transferred epithet
systole
shortening of a word to fit poetic meter
tmesis
infixation within a multi-word phrase
animalisation
artistic or literary device in which an abstraction is represented by a animal
inversion
grammatical construction where two expressions switch their canonical order of appearance
enumeration
stylistic device
anticlimax
stylistic device; subversion of climax
inversion
inversion - rearrangement of the formation
onomatopoeia
words that imitate the sound they describe
rhyme
repetition of similar sounds in language
hyperbole
exaggeration as rhetorical device
pun
form of word play
action quotient
stylistic feature of texts to differentiate "action phases" and "quality phases" in the development of children and adolescents
amplification
act of extending thoughts or statements to increase rhetorical effect
anacoluthon
figure of speech
ecphonesis
exclamatory phrase in poetry, drama, and song
parallelism
literary style of forming sentences of the same grammar structure
gnome
aphorism or a maxim designed to provide instruction in a compact form
paronomasia
a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words
paronomasia
a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words
digression
section of a composition or speech that marks a temporary shift of subject
paradox
literary device; anomalous juxtaposition of incongruous ideas for the sake of striking exposition or unexpected insight
city personification
personification of a city
classification
figure of speech linking a proper noun to a common noun
analogy
stylistic device
rhetorical answer
an answer to a rhetorical question
metonymy
figure of speech where a thing or concept is referred to indirectly by the name of something closely associated with it
oxymoron
rhetorical device that uses an ostensible self-contradiction to illustrate a rhetorical point or to reveal a paradox
zeugma
figure of speech
antiphrasis
rhetorical device
aposiopesis
figure of speech: an unfinished sentence
tautology
statement which repeats the same idea, using near-synonymous morphemes, words, or phrases
diaeresis
concepts in poetic meter
malapropism
use of an incorrect word in place of a word with a similar sound, resulting in a nonsensical, often humorous utterance
ambiguity
type of uncertainty of meaning in which several interpretations are plausible
national personification
fictional character used to represent a country and its people
repetition
rhetorical device