Defination 1
Is the attribution or projection of human characteristics onto inanimate objects, nature forces
Personification
is the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words or sentences.
Assonance
is a phonetic stylistic device based on repetition of the same consonant sounds in the neighbouring words.
Alliteration
-is the combination of sounds imitating the sounds heard in nature
Onomatopoeia
is the repetition of the same words, phrases at the beginning of utterance:
Anaphora
a deliberate repetition of conjunctions in places where they arc not contextually necessary, aimed at creating rhythm, expressing sequenee, or disintegration.
Polysyndenton
Is a stylistic device indicating someone or something by naming one of its attributes on the basis of various associations
Metonymy
is a stylistic device based on a peculiar use of negative constructions, i.e. a negative statement is used to convey a positive assertion:
Litotes
-a deliberate avoidaiice of conjunctions and connecting words between phrases or sentences
Asyndenton
is a lexico-syntactical stylistic device based on opposition or contrast of ideas, expressed by parallel constructions.
Antithesis
linking repetition, reduplication. The same words are used at the end of one sentence and at the beginning of the following:
Anadiplosis
is a stylistic device which includes two sentences, the second one repeats in a reversed manner the structure of the first sentence.
Chiasmus
Is a stylistic device in which a proper name, is used to denote a particular trait, a specific character or feauture
Antonomasia
is a stylistic device based on the use of frilly or partially identical syntactical structures in two or more sentences.
Parallel constructions
is a stylistic device based on a sudden break in the naiTation, without completing a thought. It is used to express the speaker’s strong emotions or his deliberate intention to conceal something.
Aposiopesis
is a syntactical stylistic device based on the aiTangement of a number of words, plnases or sentences in an ascending order of importance to express growing emotional tension
Gradation or Climax
-is the use of a longer and roundabout plirase instead of a possible shorter one with the aim of indicating a new feature of a phenomenon.
Periphrasis
a stylistic device that put two opposite and contradictory in meaning words or ideas together, creating a paradoxical and dramatic effect (a combination of words in which the meaning of the word describing the thing and the word denoting the thing are contradictory in sense
Oxymoron
Is stylistic device of a descriptive character in which an attribute word or phrase used to characterise a person, place, emphasizing and at the same lime evaluating some of its features
Epithet
is a stylistic device based on comparison of different objects. Unlike metaphor, it draws explicit resemblance with the help of linking words “like”, “as”, “as though”, “as if’, “resemble”, “seem”, “compare”
Simile
is an indirect reference to historical, literary, mythological, biblical facts and events, stories and legends, figures and personages. It might be represented in the text by various language units: phraseological units, quotations, proper names, references,
Allusion
-is a stylistic device based on the play of words and their meanings. One and the same word is used in different meanings, thus creating a humorous effect. use of homonyms - words that share the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meaning
Pun
is the use of a word in the same grammatical form but in different semantic relations to the words in the context blending together grammatically and logically different ideas.
Zeugma
is a stylistic device based on a contrast between two meanings, i.e. in which the opposite of what is said is meant.generally is used to convey a negative meaning: an expression of praise is used where the blame is meant.
Irony
Is a deliberate, obvious, and intentional exaggeration of a quantity, quality, size for the purpose of strong emotional impact of the reader or emphasis of a certain characteristic
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