Meaning
Rhetoric SAT?
The study of writing or speaking
For this whole year, this room has become my prison.
metaphor
Onomatopoeia
The process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.
No pain, no gain
Assonance
Personification SAT?
Giving human qualities to an abstract idea
“Give me liberty or give me death.”
Anaphora
Anaphora
When the same word or phrase is used at the beginning of a series of sentences
boing, gargle, clap, zap, and pitter-patter
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole SAT?
extravagant exaggeration
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alliteration
Paraodox
A logical puzzler that contradicts itself in a baffling way
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.
Hyperbole
Chiasmus SAT?
a rhetorical technique that involves a reversal of term
“Oh, fantastic!” when the situation is actually very bad
Irony
Alliteration
The conspicuous repetition of initial consonant sounds of nearby words in a phrase, often used as a literary device.
If I know one thing, it's that I know nothing.
paradox
Epistrophe SAT?
The repetition of words in Lincoln's address and Cobain's song are examples of a literary device called
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
Chiasmus
Assonance
The repetition of similar vowel sounds within words, phrases, or sentences
The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.
Personification