Sounds
A word for a sound that phonetically resembles the sound itself.
What is onomatopoeia?
The comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind using 'like' or 'as'
What is a similie?
A literary device in which parts of the sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction. It can be a word, a phrase, or an entire sentence repeated.
What is parallelism?
The most common letter in English
What is the letter 'e'?
Mike likes his new bike
What is consonance?
Money is the root of all evil.
What is a metaphor?
"Veni, Vidi, Vici” - “I came, I saw, I conquered
What is asyndeton?
What is a superscript dot?
Also known as 'vowel rhyme'
What is assonance?
Organized chaos
What is an oxymoron?
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers.”
What is polysyndeton?
The term for the blending of idioms, such as "we'll burn that bridge when we get to it"
What is a malaphor?
vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore"
What is sibilance?
also called syllepsis, places two nouns with different meanings in a similar position in a sentence.
What is a zeugma?
The use of words with the same root in the same sentence. Like many other rhetorical devices
What is adnomination?
The oldest English words that is still in use in modern language?
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
What is Cacophony?
I'll believe that when pigs fly
What is adynaton?
The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of subsequent sentences.
What is anaphora?
The 27th character of the alphabet
What is an ampersand?
&