English Stylistic Devices

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• Allegory extended metaphor poem story representative idea intended
• Allusion reference person event religious historical
• Alliteration repetition sound beginning words sequence
• Anaphora repetition word phrase beginning successive clauses lines
• Antonomasia substitution epithet title proper e.g maid orleans
• Assonance repetition sound words close
• Cacophony harsh joining sounds e.g grunted gruff voice
• Catachresis harsh metaphor involving word strict sphere
• Detachment stylistic device based singling secondary member sentence
• Epithet expresses characteristic object existing imaginary
• Humour joke
• Hyperbole exaggeration emphasis rhetorical effect
• Irony expression contrary indented meaning
• Metaphor implied comparison achieved figurative words
• Metonymy substitution words suggests of
• Onomatopoeia words imitate  natural sounds
• Oxymoron apparent paradox achieved juxtaposition words contradict
• Paranomasia similar sounding words use
• Personification attribution personality impersonal thing
• Pleonasm superfluous redundant words use
• Pun
• Sarcasm irony but mean
• Simile explicit comparison things between
• Synecdoche understanding thing pert part
• Meiosis understatement
• Zeugma words linked adjective strictly
• Repetition anadiplosis rhetorical words specifically ends clause beginning
• Anticlimax disappointing end exciting impressive series events
• Antithesis opposition contrast ideas words balanced parallel construction
• Aposopesis form ellipse speaker abrupt halt seemingly overcome
• Asyndeton lack conjunctions coordinate phrases clauses words
• Chiamus pairs arranged parallels a-b-a-b inverted order a-b-b-a
• Climax intense exciting important point culmination
• Ellipsis omission speech writing word superfluous understood contextual
• Inversion reversal normal order words typically rhetorical effect
• I litotes ironic understatement affirmative expressed negative contrary
• Paradox assertion seemingly opposed common sense truth
• Parallelism successive verbal constructions poetry prose correspond grammatical
• Polysyndeton repetition conjunctions close succession
• Repetition
• Speech represented character inner of
• Suspense state feeling excited anxious uncertainty happen

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