Literary Devices: Unleash the Power of Language

Literary Devices

Alliteration

It occurs when repeating a phoneme or group of phonemes.

... Polyphemus, ... arror of that sierra

Barbara hut is GUE umber rialb or

and redil spacious where to err ENCI

when run roughly cumberes ras cabrio

Onomatopoeia

It is a kind of alliteration that plays real sounds:

Ticking of the watch

Anaphora

Is the repetition of a word or words in the initial position of a phrase or verse:

• All wear a dress
• One shoe fits all
• All eat a banana
• All are beautiful

Paronomasia

Association in the course of two words whose signifiers are similar but whose meanings are different:

Clouds are not ships

Polysyndeton

Involves coordination of several elements with rich language and repeated conjunctions.

Epithets

Is to add adjectives that characterize the noun to praise or insult someone or something.

Oh sweet clothes for my bad found

Sweet and happy when God wanted ...

Asyndeton

It is the opposite of polysyndeton. Is to remove the conjunction in contexts in which it should appear:

A laugh, eyes, hands, and my feelings

Ellipsis

Consists of the removal of any term of the sentence that is understood by the context:

Always cry my greatest advantage,

Penalties are and gall any bite,

Night desire, and the stillness care

Battlefield hard bed

Hyperbaton

Is variation of the normal syntactic order:

This, therefore, formidable land

The melancholic emptiness yawning

Has been dropped a carnation ...

Parallelism

Is to divide the period syntactic Special Member in length, tone, and syntactic training.

Such is the fire of the limelight ...

Simile (Comparison)

Is to relate a real term with another imaginary which bears a likeness; the most used items are Cual, Como.

His eyes are like two black beetles

Metaphor

The transfer of meaning between two words (one real and one imaginary). The metaphor is eg impure. Golden hair (hair ter. Real and gold ter. Imaginary) and pure metaphor eg. Fires of heaven (the stars follows)

Hyperbole

Occurs when you alter an exaggerated reality

There was a man with a nose stuck ...

Irony

Is to express the opposite of what is meant

Bowling is not no movie download

Paradox

Combining two irreconcilable ideas. After what seems an absurd message hides a reasonable idea or a profound truth.

Living without living in my

I hope so high life

I die because I do not die

Antithesis

It consists of contrasting the two words antonyms speech

The sweet, bitter, true story ...

Personification

Is to attribute properties of the natural world realities.

Sources whisper, cry the heavens ...

... Rich