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| 4423486708 | allegory | Definition: A figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events. Example: The Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland represents Alice's guiding spirit, a living symbol that challenges her throughout the novel. |  | 0 |
| 4423492312 | anaphora | Definition: A literary and rhetorical device in which a word or group of words is repeated at the beginning of two or more successive clauses or sentences. This adds emphasis and unity to a clause. Example: "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air..." | 1 | |
| 4423492313 | aphorism | Definition: A statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner. The term is often applied to philosophical, moral, and literary principles. Example: "Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." | 2 | |
| 4423492314 | ellegy | Definition: A form of literature which can be defined as a poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor of someone deceased. Example: "With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise." | 3 | |
| 4423492315 | ellipses | Definition: Ellipsis is a literary device that is used in narratives to omit some parts of a sentence or event, which gives the reader a chance to fill the gaps while acting or reading it out. Example: So...what happened? But I thought we were meeting on Tuesday...? | 4 | |
| 4423492316 | epistrophe | Definition: A Green word that means turning upon, which indicates the same word returns at the end of each sentence. It is a stylistic device that can be defined as the repetition of phrases or words at the end of the clauses or sentences. Example: Last week, he was just fine. Yesterday, he was just fine. And today, he was just fine. | 5 | |
| 4423528095 | foil | Definition: A character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character with the objective to highlight the traits of the other character. Example: "He smiled understandingly--much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life." Contrast made by Nick Caraway, comparing the behaviors of Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. | 6 | |
| 4423495533 | synecdoche | Definition: A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a while to represent a part. It may also use larger groups to refer to smaller groups or vice versa. Example: Ask for her hand refers to asking a woman to marry her. Plastic can refer to credit cards. Boots on the ground can refer to soldiers in war. | 7 | |
| 4423530395 | metonymy | Definition: A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. Example: The crown could be another name for a royal person. The big house could be another name for prison. | 8 | |
| 4423499738 | litote | Definition: A Greek word meaning "simple," is a figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives or in other words positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions. Example: You are not as young as you used to be. | 9 | |
| 4423530396 | paradox | Definition: It is a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth. It is also used to illustrate an opinion or statement contrary to accepted traditional ideas. Example: I am nobody. Truth is honey which is bitter. It's weird not to be weird. | 10 | |
| 4423537488 | juxtaposition | Definition: A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. Example: All's fair in love and war. | 11 | |
| 4423502022 | malapropism | Definition: A use of an incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word that results in a nonsensical and humorous expression. Example: He was a man of great statue. (Instead of "He was a man of great stature.") | 12 | |
| 4423504518 | ode | Definition: A form of poetry such as a sonnet or elegy. It is a literary technique that is lyrical in nature, but not very lengthy. Odes typically are written by poets to praise people, natural scenes, and abstract ideas. It is highly solemn and serious in its tone and subject matter. Example: "Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" | 13 | |
| 4423504519 | anthropomorphism | Definition: A literary device that can be defined as a technique in which a writer ascribes human traits, ambitions, emotions or entire behavior to animal, non-human beings, natural phenomena or objects. Example: Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends. Thomas the Train. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. | 14 | |
| 4423506563 | ploce | Definition: A figure of speech in which a word is separated or repeated by way of emphasis; the repetition of a word functioning as a different part of speech or in different contexts. Example: I am stuck on Band-Aid, and Band-Aid's stuck on me. The future is no place to place your better days. | 15 | |
| 4423537489 | asyndeton | Definition: A stylistic device used in literature and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases and in the sentence, yet maintain the grammatical accuracy. Example: "...we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." -JFK | 16 | |
| 4423540132 | polysyndeton | Definition: A stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect. Example: I went to the store and bought soap and lotion and toothpaste and underwear and a shower curtain to make my bathroom look better. | 17 | |
| 4423510533 | anticipated objection | Definition: The technique a writer or speaker uses in an argumentative text to address and answer objections, even tough the audience has not had the opportunity to voice these objections. Example: "You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air... You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory." -Winston Churchill | 18 | |
| 4423510534 | syllogism | Definition: A rhetorical device that starts an argument with a reference to something general and from this it draws conclusion about something more specific. Example: "With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good." "Want him to be more of a man? try being more of a woman!" | 19 | |
| 4423513042 | zeugma | Definition: A figure of speech in which a word, usually a verb or an adjective, applies to more than one noun, blending together grammatically and logically different ideas. Example: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." | 20 | |
| 4423513043 | chiasmus | Definition: A rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect. Example: Never let a Fool kiss you or a Kiss fool you. | 21 | |
| 4423514648 | apostrophe | Definition: A literary device when a speaker breaks off from addressing one party and instead addresses a third party. Example: Ugh, cell phone, why won't you load my messages? Oh what a world it seems we live in. O holy night! The stars are brightly shining! | 22 | |
| 4423514649 | anadiplosis | Definition: The repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause. Example: "For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas and hath not left his peer." -John Milton "Strength through purity, purity through faith." -Chancellor Adam Susan | 23 | |
| 4423544133 | active voice | Definition: The subject is doing the acting. The voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb. Example: Kevin hits the ball. | 24 | |
| 4423546741 | passive voice | Definition: The voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient of the action denoted by the verb. When the subject of the sentence is acted on by the verb. Example: The ball was hit by Kevin. | 25 |
