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| show | Repetition of words with the same root. The difference lies in one sound or letter. A nice euphony can be achieved by using this poetic device.
Examples: Someone, somewhere, wants something.
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| Allegory | show 🗑
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| show | Reference to a myth, character, literary work, work of art, or an event.
Ex: I feel like I’m going down the rabbit hole (an allusion to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll).
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| Anaphora | show 🗑
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| show | Word repetition at the end of sentences.
Ex: “And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” (Abraham Lincoln)
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| show | Emphasizing contrast between two things or fictional characters.
Ex: “Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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| show | Repetition of vowels in order to create internal rhyming.
Ex: “Hear the mellow wedding bells.” (Edgar Allan Poe)
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| Consonance | show 🗑
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| show | Mentioning of the person or object further in the discourse.
Ex: I met him yesterday, your boyfriend who was wearing the cool hat.
-If you want some, here’s some cheese.
-After he had received his orders, the soldier left the barracks.
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| Climax | show 🗑
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| Charactonym (or Speaking Name) | show 🗑
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| show | Word or phrase omission.
Ex: I speak lots of languages, but you only speak two (languages).
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| show | Replacing offensive or combinations of words with lighter equivalents.
Ex: Visually challenged (blind); meet one’s maker (die)
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| show | Replacing a neutral word with a harsher word
ex:Using "Looney Bin" in place of mental hospital.
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| show | Memorable and brief saying, usually satirical.
Ex: “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” (Virginia Woolf)
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| show | Exaggeration of the statement.
Ex: If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times.
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| show | Understatement
ex:“not too bad” for “very good” is an understatement
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| Hypophora | show 🗑
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| show | (Antiphrasis) – using words to express something different from their literal meaning for ironic effect (”I’m so excited to burn the midnight oil and write my academic paper all week long”).
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| show | result differs from the expectation (Bruce Robertson, a character of Filth, is a policeman. Nonetheless, he does drugs, resorts to violence and abuse, and so on).
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| show | Describing people/objects by enumerating their traits.
Ex: Lock, stock, and barrel (gun); heart and soul (entirety)
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| Metalepsis | show 🗑
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| show | Comparing two different things that have some characteristics in common.
Ex:The typical teenage boy’s room is a disaster area
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| Metonymy | show 🗑
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| show | Imitating sounds in writing.
Ex: oink, ticktock, tweet tweet
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| Oxymoron | show 🗑
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| Parallelism | show 🗑
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| show | An inverted parallelism
Ex: We shape our buildings, and afterward our buildings shape us
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| show | nterrupting a sentence by inserting extra information enclosed in brackets, commas, or dashes.
Ex: Our family (my mother, sister, and grandfather) had a barbeque this past weekend.
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| show | self-contradictory fact; however, it can be partially true (“I can resist anything but temptation.”—Oscar Wilde).
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| show | arranging a sentence in such a manner so the last part is unexpected (You’re never too old to learn something stupid).
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| show | Direct comparison.
Ex: “Your heart is like an ocean, mysterious and dark.” (Bob Dylan)
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| show | Generalization or specification based on a definite part/trait of the object.
Ex: He just got new wheels. (car)
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| show | Saying the same thing twice in different ways.
Examples: first priority
I personally
repeat again
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