Literary Terms/Rhetorical Devices
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xotiffanyy21 on January 20, 2011
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Italian | English |
|---|---|
 alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| allusion | indirect reference |
| analogy | drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect |
| anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| asyndeton | a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| metaphor | a comparison without using like or as |
| oxymoron | an expression in which two words that contradict each other are joined |
| paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth |
| parallelism | similarity by virtue of correspondence |
| personification | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature |
| polysyndeton | the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural |
| rhetorical question | a question asked for an effect, not actually requiring an answer |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| synecdoche | using a part of something to represent the whole thing |
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