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| 3263068450 | Synecdoche | The phrase "gray beard" refers to an old man. The word "sails" refers to a whole ship. The word "suits" refers to businessmen. | 0 | |
| 3263080589 | Synesthesia | In the first canto, the poet tells us about a place called "Inferno". He says, "Back to the region where the sun is silent." Here, Dante binds the sense of sight (sun) with the sense of hearing(silent). | 1 | |
| 3263080590 | Syntax | In casual conversations, we can simply say, "I cannot go out" to convey our inability to go out. P J Kavanagh's in his poem Beyond Decoration does not rely on merely stating a prosaic "I cannot go out". Rather, he shifts the syntax and says "Go out I cannot", which lays a much stronger emphasis on the inability to go out conveyed by the word "cannot". | 2 | |
| 3263080591 | Theme | In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. | 3 | |
| 3263082413 | Thesis | "Homeless people in Berkeley should be given access to services, such as regular food donations, public restrooms, and camping facilities, because it would improve life for all inhabitants of the city." | 4 | |
| 3263094021 | Tone | Father: "We are going on a vacation." Son: "That's great!!!" - The tone of son's response is very cheerful. | 5 | |
| 3263094022 | Transition | on the contrary, however, notwithstanding, after, at last, before | 6 | |
| 3263095979 | Understatement | In Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield says: "I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain." | 7 | |
| 3263095980 | Wit | "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." ~Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen | 8 | |
| 3263098434 | Anadiplosis | From The Bible, "......... you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love" ( The Bible, II Peter 1:5 - 7) In this verse, one is able to see how all the mentioned qualities are connected to each other with the use of anadiplosis. | 9 | |
| 3263098435 | Anecdote | Excerpt from "Death in the Arctic" by Robert W. Service What is that? Bells, dogs again! Is it a dream? I sob and cry. See! The door opens, fur-clad men Rush to my rescue; frail am I; Feeble and dying, dazed and glad. There is the pistol where it dropped. "Boys, it was hard — but I'm not mad. . . . Look at the clock — it stopped, it stopped. Carry me out. The heavens smile. See! There's an arch of gold above. Now, let me rest a little while — Looking to God and Love . . .and Love . . .". In this poem, the speaker is freezing slowly in the Arctic. He recollects the memories of his life and tells the whole story to the readers, but sees flashes of his life before he dies. In fact, he is using anecdotes to tell his life story. | 10 | |
| 3263098436 | Anthimeria | Hurley: I moved him to the boathouse. . . . You just totally Scooby-Doo'd me, didn't you? ("Eggtown," Lost, 2008) | 11 | |
| 3263099928 | Antimetabole | "Eat to live, not live to eat."- Socrates "I go where I please, and I please where I go." - Attributed to Duke Nukem "In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, Party always finds you!" - Yakov Smirnoff | 12 | |
| 3263100986 | Chiasmus | "It is not the earth that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath." - Aeschylus (5th Century B.C.) "Love as if you would one day hate, and hate as if you would one day love." - Bias (6th Century B.C.) | 13 | |
| 3263100987 | Cliché | in the nick of time - to happen just in time only time will tell - to become clear over time a matter of time - to happen sooner or later at the speed of light - to do something very quickly lasted an eternity - to last for a very long time lost track of time - to stop paying attention to time | 14 | |
| 3263102455 | Dysphemism | HAMLET Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God..... Fie on't, ah fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed. ... So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr.... (Hamlet by William Shakespeare) Hamlet feels despondency about his mother's second marriage to his uncle. Hence, he uses harsh language to state that his flesh could have melted away or that God has not forbidden suicide and "fie on't" means damn it. His father is like a god (Hyperion) and his uncle is like a beast (satyr). | 15 | |
| 3263102456 | Epistrophe | "Where now? Who now? When now?" (The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett) Examples of epistrophe abound in Beckett's work. In this extract, the word, "now" is repeated three times to put an emphasis and makes the line memorable. It also creates cadence and rhythm. | 16 | |
| 3263103791 | Epithet | "The earth is crying-sweet, And scattering-bright the air, Eddying, dizzying, closing round, With soft and drunken laughter..." (Beauty and Beauty by Rupert Brooke) In this excerpt, the description of the air and earth is enhanced by the usage of epithets: crying-sweet, scattering-bright, and soft and drunken laughter. These epithets help in developing imagery in the minds of readers. | 17 | |
| 3263103792 | Inverted Syntax | That is a beautiful dog! What a beautiful dog that is! | 18 | |
| 3263191066 | Jargon | Examples of Medical Jargon Agonal - Term to signify a major, negative change in a patient's condition BP - Medical shorthand for blood pressure FX - Medical jargon meaning bone fracture JT - A joint NPO - A patient should not take anything by mouth IM - Intramuscular K - The elemental symbol for potassium | 19 |
