Literary Devices: Figures of Speech Definitions
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- Overlap: There is no pause between two lines.
- Alliteration: Repetition of a sound or a number equal.
- Onomatopoeia: Imitation of sounds of reality.
- Similicadencia: Based resource use two or more words in a verse.
- Paronomasia: "Sold to me as sold."
- Pleonasm: Adding unnecessarily or redundant words.
- Epithet: Adjective which expresses the quality and included in the substantive.
- Ellipsis: Deleted unnecessary words.
- Asyndeton: Copulative conjunctions are deleted.
- Polysyndeton: Repeated conjunctions that are not needed.
- Anaphora: Repeat one or more words at the beginning of several lines.
- Epiphora: Repeat one or more words at the end.
- Epanadiplosis: Consists of repeating a word at the beginning and end.
- Anadiplosis: What I let go / all throw.
- Parallelism: The same verse is repeated with small variations.
- Chiasmus: Parallelism in which the elements cross each other.
- Derivation: Worthy of merit it deserves...
- Concatenation: No creature without love / no love without jealousy / or jealousy...
- Hyperbaton: Inversion of the logical grammatical order.
- Pun: "A this lopico, the pico."
- Anacoluthon: Changes the syntactic construction.
- Prosopography: Physical description of a person or an animal.
- Etopeya: Describes the spiritual and moral qualities of a person.
- Enumeración: Describes a reality with the accumulation of substantives and adjectives.
- Rhetorical Question: A question that requires no response.
- Apostrophe: Invokes a real or imaginary being.
- Hyperbole: An exaggeration of reality.
- Personification: Human qualities are attributed to other beings.
- Paradox: To unite apparently opposite ideas.
- Correlation:
- Simile or Comparison: Two echoes similar qualities, people or objects.
- Understatement: Is the interruption of the sentence began.
- Metaphor: Term relationship between real and unreal term.
- Or Synaesthesia/Synaesthetic Metaphor: Confused mixture of feelings.
- Allegory: Metaphors chained (four real - four unreal).
- Symbol: A set of words suggests a different meaning.
- Metonymy: Substituting one word for another when there is a relationship between them.
- Synecdoche: Replace the part for the whole.