Stylistic Devices
The use of successive verbal constructions in poetry that corresponds in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning
What is Parallelism
Two opposing things (ideas, images, colors, etc) placed together with contrasting effect.
What is Juxtaposition
a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition that, when investigated or explained, may prove to be well founded or true.
What is a Paradox
An exaggeration used for emphasis
What is Hyperbole
a short, often commonly known saying that expresses a truth in a memorable way
What is an Aphorism
A stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession to achieve an artistic effect
What is Polysyndeton
Compares one idea, object, or image without using Like or As
What is a Metaphor
the repetition of a word at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences
What is Anaphora
Using concrete objects, images, or characters to represent something larger
What is Symbolism
a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident
What is an Ancedote
Saying something without saying it directly
What is an Allusion
Compares one idea, object, or image by using like or as
What is a Simile
a form of repetition in which the last word of one clause or sentence is repeated as the first word of the following clause or sentence
What is Anadiplosis
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or a whole is made to represent the sum of its parts
What is Synecdoche
the omission or absence of conjunction between parts of a sentence
What is an Asyndeton
A nicer way of saying something blunt
What is an Euphemism
a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by the parallelism of words that are the opposites of other
What is an Antithesis
the repetition of a phrase, question, or plea for emphasis - to dwell on an important point.
What is Epimone
Giving a human characteristic to something nonhuman
What is Personification
which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance
a state of affairs, an event, or an explanation that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects
What is Situational Irony
embellishing a word or phrase by adding more information to it in order to increase its worth and understandability.
What is Amplification
is an author's exploitation of an analogy at length through multiple sentences or lines in a story or poem
What is Extended Metaphor
a state of affairs, an event, or an explanation that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects
What is Situational Irony
a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer
Rhetorical Question