Stylistic Devices I
What is the term for the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase?
Alliteration
Question: What is the term for the comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"?
Simile
What is the term for the repetition of a word or phrase in reverse order?
Chiasmus
What is the term for a word or phrase that appeals to the senses, creating a vivid impression?
Imagery
: In literature, what does the term "tone" refer to?
The author's attitude toward the subject matter or audience.
This term refers to the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences.
Anaphora
What device involves the deliberate repetition of words or phrases at the end of successive sentences or clauses?
Epistrophe
What is the term for a statement that contradicts itself but reveals a deeper truth?
Paradox
What is the term for the perspective or outlook from which a story is told?
Point of view
What is the term for the underlying message or main idea of a literary work?
Theme
This device involves the use of exaggerated terms for emphasis or heightened effect.
Hyperbole
What term describes the use of a part of something to represent the whole or the other way around?
Metonymy
This device involves the use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the narrative.
Foreshadowing
This term describes the use of language to create mental images or pictures.
Figurative language
What term describes the rhythmical pattern of a poem, including the arrangement of syllables and accents?
Meter
What stylistic device involves giving human-like characteristics to non-human entities or abstract concepts?
Personification
This device involves the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses or sentences.
Epiphora or Antistrophe
What term describes the use of a word that imitates or resembles a sound associated with the thing it refers to?
Onomatopoeia
What term describes the repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words?
Assonance
What term refers to the use of one object or action to represent something else?
Symbolism
What term describes the intentional use of words that imitate the sound they denote?
Onomatopoeia
Question: What is the term for a figure of speech in which contradictory terms are combined?
Oxymoron
What term describes the omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses?
Asyndeton
What term refers to the emotional association that a word carries beyond its literal meaning?
Connotation
What is the term for the artful arrangement of events in a story, including the order in which they are presented to the reader?
Narrative structure