Devices And Figures Of Speech

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allegory

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extended metaphor

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alliteration

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repetition of initial consonant sounds in successive words

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anaphora

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repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses

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anastrophe

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reversal of normal word order

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assonance

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repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds(a= desire, o/u= divine intervention)

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asyndeton

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omission of conjuntion where expected

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allusion

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incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication

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apostrophe

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direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction

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antithesis

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figure of speech in which sharply contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in a balanced or parallel phrase

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caesura

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break in a line caused by the ending of a word within a foot

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chiasmus

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arrangement of words or phrases in oppositional, ABBA, order

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consonance

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use of the repetition of consonants or consonant patterns (m,n= sadness, l,r= tears)

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convolution

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mixing up of words order

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diaeresis

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pause in a line of verse that occurs when the end of a word and the end of a metrical foot coincide

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diastole

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lengthening of a syllable regularly short

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ellipsis

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omission of a word or phrase necessary for a complete syntactical construction but not necessary for understanding

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enjambment

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running on of the thought from one line to the next without a syntactical break

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ellision

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omission of a vowel at the end of one word when the next word begins with a vowel

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foreshadowing

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providing vague advance indications

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golden line

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verse consisting of 2 adjectives, 2 substantives, and a verb in the middle

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hendiadys

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two words connected by a conjunction are used to express a single notion

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hyperbaton

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separation of a word from its modifier

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homoioteleuton

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series of words with the same or similar endings

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ictus

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accent occuring on first syllable of each foot in dactylic hexameter

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irony

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when speaker says one thing but means another, or when a literal meaning is contrary to intended effect

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juxtaposition

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close use of 2 related words in 1+ lines

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litotes

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statement is made by indicating the negative of its opposite

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metaphor

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comparison of seemingly unrelated subjects

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metonomy

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use of name of one object for that of another related one

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onomatopoeia

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use of imitative and naturally suggestive words

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personification

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attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects

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polysyndeton

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use of a number of conjunctions in close succession

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prolepsis

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use of a descriptive word in anticipation of its becoming applicable

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polyptoton

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repetition of a word in a different case or inflection in the same sentence

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pleonasm

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use of more words than are necessary to express an idea

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simile

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figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared

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synecdoche

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part is used for the whole or the whole for a part,

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systole

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shortening of a syllable regularly long

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synchesis

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interlocked word order, in the form A-B-A-B

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tmesis

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Separation of the parts of a compound word by one or more intervening words

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transferred epithet

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modifier, usually an adjective, is applied to the "wrong" word in the sentence

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tricolon crescens

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climatic series of 3 phrases, each more intense than last

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word picture

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type of imagery in which words are arranged to suggest described image

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zuegma

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use of 1 word to modify 2+ words when appropriate to only one or both words