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Metonymy or Synecdoche
Metonymy or Synecdoche
We will swear loyalty to the crown.
Metonymy
She dropped the glass and it broke into pieces.
Anaphora
Whats the purpose of Asyndeton
To shorten a sentence and focus on its meaning.
“living death”.
nah
“Men work together whether they work together or apart.” - Robert Frost
Paradox
He bought a new set of wheels
Synecdoche
What is purpose of Anaphora
the purpose of generating a particular effect in your audience.
Today, my teacher gave me math homework and science homework and reading homework and a project to complete!
Polysyndeton
“Charm is a woman's strength, strength is a man's charm,”
Antimetabole
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Antithesis
“He said he reckoned a body could reform the ole man with a shotgun.” Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain I
Metonymy
For no government is better than the men who compose it, and I want the best, and we need the best, and we deserve the best. - John F. Kennedy
Epistrophe
Speed up the film, Montag, quick. Click, Pic, Look, Eye, Now, Flick, Here, There, Swift, Pace, Up, Down, In, Out, Why, How, Who, What, Where, Eh? Uh! Bang! Smack! Wallop, Bing, Bong, Boom! - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Asyndeton
"Virtue that transgressed is but patch'd with sin, And sin that amends is but patch'd with virtue."Twelfth Night,Shakespeare
Yes it is an Antimetabole
What is the literary definition of an Oxymoron
a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.
Which one uses one word to represent a whole thing
Synecdoche
What is the purpose of Epistrophe
Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive sentences or clauses. Effect: Because the emphasis is on the last word(s) of a series of sentences or phrases, epistrophe can be very dramatic.
aiming at the prisoner the beery breath of a whet he had taken as he came 1 along, and discharging it to mingle with the waves of other beer, and gin, and tea, and coffee, and what not, that flowed at him, and already broke upon the great windows behind him in an impure mist and rain.
Polysyndeton
Is “But now my oat proceeds,
And listens to the herald of the sea
That came in Neptune’s plea,
He asked the waves, and asked the felon winds,
What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain?” an Antimetable
nah
Whats the purpose of Juxtaposition and why do authors use it ?
it creates an effect reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose.
The difference between Metonymy and Synecodoche
synecdoche takes an element of a word or phrase and uses it to refer to the whole, a metonymy replaces the word or phrase entirely with a related concept
What is the difference between Anaphora & Epistrophe
A rhetorical device in which a word or expression is repeated at the beginning of a number of sentences, clauses, or phrases.
epistrophe, which is similar in nature, but describes the repetition of a word which occurs at the end of a phrase, sentence, or clause, rather than the beginning.
Why is Asyndeton used in writing
This rhetorical device works to make a speech more dramatic and effective by speeding up its rhythm and pace.
whats the purpose of Antimetabole and why do authors use it ?
rhetorical device in which a phrase or sentence isrepeated, but in reverse order. Writers or speakers use antimetabole for effect-calling attention to the words, or demonstrating that reality is not always what it seems by using the reversal of words.
“Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O anything, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Dost thou not laugh?”
Oxymoron