Sound Devices
This sound device involves the repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words, typically creating a melody or harmony within a line.
What is Assonance
This figure of speech involves giving human qualities to non-human objects or abstract concepts.
What is Personification
This term refers to the use of vivid, descriptive language to paint a mental image for the audience.
What is Imagery
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is Alliteration
"The wind whispered through the trees."
What is Personification
This term refers to the repetition of soft "s" sounds, often used to create a soothing, flowing effect in a piece of writing.
What is Sibilance
This device involves exaggeration for emphasis or effect, often used in poetry or storytelling.
What is Hyperbole
This rhetorical device involves asking a question that does not require an answer, often used to make a point or create emphasis.
What is Rehetorical Question?
"Strips of tinfoil winking like people"
What is Assonance
"Her smile was as bright as the sun."
What is Simile
This device refers to the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of closely connected words, often used to create rhythm and emphasis.
What is Alliteration?
This term refers to a phrase that contradicts itself, often used to express complex truths or irony.
What is Oxymoron
This term describes the ethical appeal, persuading the audience by establishing the speaker’s credibility or character.
What is Ethos
"The sharp, shrill shrieks of the whistle cut through the still air."
What is Sibilance
"His words were a knife, cutting deep into my heart."
What is Metaphor
This device refers to harsh sounds that create a discordant or unpleasant effect, often used to convey tension or discomfort.
What is Cacophony
This figure of speech involves a part representing the whole
What is Synecdoche
This rhetorical technique uses logic and reasoning to persuade the audience, often involving facts, statistics, or logical arguments.
What is Logos
"And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall / By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
What is parahyme
"The White House issued a statement today denying the President's knowledge and involvement."
What is Metonymy
This sound device involves the use of harmonious, pleasant-sounding words and phrases, often evoking a sense of peace or beauty.
What is Euphony
A reference to an outside literary work (usually canonical - ie/ Bible/ Mythology/ Shakespeare etc)
What is Allusion
This figure of speech involves repeating a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses for emphasis.
What is Anaphora
"The jarring clang of the metal against metal echoed through the alley."
What is Cacaphony
"The silence was deafening as the crowd waited for the verdict."
What is Oxymoron
This type of alliteration occurs when words begin with fricative consonants, like "f," "v," "th," or "s," often creating a smooth or whispering effect.
What is fricative alliteration?
This rhetorical device involves placing two opposite ideas together in a balanced structure, often to highlight contrast.
What is Antithesis
This rhetorical device involves a speaker raising a question and then immediately answering it, often used to guide the audience's thought process.
What is Hypophora?
"I open the cellar door. The soft breeze whispers through the willows, the water's gentle lapping at the shore."
What is Euphony
"She has a heart of stone, untouched by the sorrow around her."
What is Extended Metaphor