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| 7208136788 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds. "She sells sea shells by the sea shore..." | 0 | |
| 7208148196 | Allusion | A reference to history or literature, including the Bible and mythology. "My father has the patience of Job." | 1 | |
| 7208154847 | Anachronism | Persons, objects, or events placed in the wrong time period. "The clock striking in Julius Caesar." | 2 | |
| 7208160770 | Analogy | A comparison between two things to show how they are alike. "Imaginations is your staircase to adventure." | 3 | |
| 7208173884 | Anaphora | Repetition of the same word(s) or phrase throughout all or part of a work for emphasis. "What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?" | 4 | |
| 7208182089 | Apostrophe | A writer or character addressing a person, an idea, or something which cannot be respond. " Oliver Wendell Holmes addressing a shell. "Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the Wandering Sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn!" | 5 | |
| 7208249164 | Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds. In "Song of Myself #33," by Walt whitman, "Tumbling walls buriEd me in their debrIs, Heat and smoke I inspired, I heardthe dIstant clIck of their pIcks and shovels." | 6 | |
| 7208293310 | Cacophony | Harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds grating noise such as that hound in Lewis Carroll's poem, Jabberwocky: 'Twas brillig, and the silthy toves Did Grye and Gimble in the wabe All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrab." | 7 | |
| 7208339235 | Caesura | A pause or a break in a line of poetry. The following quote from The Seafarer, translated by Burton Raffel, exemplifies a caesura: "This tale is true, and mine. It tells How the sea took me, swept me back And for in sorrow and fear and pain, Showed me suffering in a hundred ships..." | 8 | |
| 7208401886 | Catalogue | A list. Song of Myself by Walt Whitman: "I hear bravuras of birds, bustle of growing wheat, gossip of flames, clack of sticks cooking my meals." | 9 | |
| 7208426990 | Cliché( dead metaphor/ mixed metaphor) | An expression that has lost it freshness because of too much repetition . "Sly as a fox"; the "tip of the iceberg"; the "straw that broke the camel's back" | 10 | |
| 7208456841 | Conceit | A shocking comparison between two dissimilar things; usually a metaphor or a simile. T.S. Eliot stated that the "evening was spread out against the sky / Like a person etherized upon a table." | 11 | |
| 7208473606 | Consonance | The repetition of final consonant sounds after different vowel sounds; The vowels may be the same but their sounds are different. "Blood wood, food; Tick-tock; strut, fret" | 12 | |
| 7208512095 | Euphony | Pleasing sounds; opposite of cacophony. The tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Longfellow exemplifies euphony: "The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; Along the sea-sands damp and brown The traveller hastens toward the town, And the tide rises, the tide falls." | 13 | |
| 7208546890 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration used for effect or for humor. Mark twain, the master of hyperbole, writes about Jim in Huckleberry Finn: "When Tom Sawyer takes the sleeping Jim's hat and hangs it on a limb of a tree, Jim overreacts: "Afterward Jim said the witches bewitched him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over that state, and then set him under the tree again, and hung his hat on a limb to show who done it." | 14 | |
| 7208569083 | Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect: ""Don't go overboard with the gratitude," he rejoined with heavy irony" | 15 | |
| 7208569829 | Verbal Irony | Saying the opposite of what is meant. "In Julius Caesar, Antony refers to Brutus as "an Honorable man" when Antony really really despises Brutus for murdering Caesar." | 16 | |
| 7208589114 | Dramatic Irony | Occurs when the reader or audience knows something that a character does not know, so that words or actions have meanings about which character is unaware. For example, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout unknowingly diffuse a potentially dangerous situation at the jail involving Atticus and some men who want to lynch Atticus's client, Tom Robinson. Scouts friendliness towards one of the men, Mr.Cunningham, shames him and results in his leaving and taking the other men with him | 17 | |
| 7208797607 | Situational Irony | When what happens is different from what is expected to happen. We see situational irony in Poe's Cask of Amontillado when Montressor "insists" that Fortunato leave the catacombs because of his persistent cough but we know that Montressor is actually luring Fortunato deeper into the catacombs. | 18 | |
| 7208819615 | Kenning | A word or compound substituted as a synonym for a noun. In Beowolf we see the kenning "whale-road" for the sea. | 19 | |
| 7208826031 | Metaphor | A comparison between two unlike things without out using the words "like, as, than, seems, or resembles" | 20 | |
| 7208835354 | Onomatopoeia | Words which suggest or sound like their meanings. Buzz, thump, hiss | 21 | |
| 7208838126 | Oxymoron | A combination of words which are apparently contradictory. Deafening silenece, bittersweet, crual kindness. | 22 | |
| 7208845234 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." | 23 | |
| 7208852704 | Pathetic Fallacy | A form of personification in which nature is given human emotions, to the degree that it becomes illogical or even absurd for nature to have such emotions | 24 | |
| 7208856412 | Personification | Giving human traits to something non-human | 25 | |
| 7208858181 | Simile | A comparison between two things using words "like ,as, than, seems, or resembles" | 26 | |
| 7208866110 | Synecdoche | Use of a part to represent the whole; some soources consider it synonymous with metonymy. "All hands on deck" | 27 | |
| 7208871586 | Trope | A figure of speech involving a 'turn' or change of sense - the use of a word in a sense other than the literal; includes metaphor, simile, irony, and paradox | 28 | |
| 7208877317 | Understatement | A statement that says less than is meant; deliberately down-playing something from the purpose of emphasis, humor, or irony | 29 |
