Styliatic Devicea Flashcards
(36 cards)
What is Alliteration
Repeat of initial consonant soud at the begging of words
Consonance
Repated consonant sounds in words close together
Assonance
The reputation of the same vowel sound in words
Repetation
Repeated qord or phrase
Euphemism
Figure of speech in which the harsh or unpleasant fact is so state that it us harsh
Hyperbole
Extreme exaggeration
Understatement
When the severity or harshness of something is dismissed
Rhetorical Question
A question used more as a statement for greater emphasis.
Imagery
Description that appeals to the 5 senses
Idiom
A word or group of words whose meaning is created from usage and not a definition of the words
Verbal Irony
Stating the opposite
Situational Irony
Contrast between what we think happens and what actually does
Dramatic Irony
Implacation of a Situation, speech are understood by the audience
Litotes
An understatement in which an idea is conveyed by the use of its opposite with a negative. Example not bad
Metaphor
Not using like or as
Simile
Using like or as
Onomatopoeia
The sound of a word mimics to which it refers
Oxymoron
Joing two contradictory words or phrases
Paradox
A statement that at first seems to be self-contradictory but which on closer inspection turns out to have a valid message.
Pathetic Fallacy
Projecting emotion of a character onto the environment.
Personification
Giving human qualities to non-human things
Apostrophe
To address a person that is not present
Pun
A play on words
Symbol
Words or images that signify more than they present
