Literary Devices. Alliteration The repetition of sounds especially of the initial consonant.

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Literary Devices

Alliteration The repetition of sounds especially of the initial consonant

Alliteration The Wicked Witch of the West went her own way.

Anaphora The repetition of the same word

Anaphora This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars

Apostrophe Address to someone or something not present

Apostrophe Oh ancestors, what would you say about this matter?

Asyndeton Omission of conjunctions

Asyndeton Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Chiasmus ABBA word order

Chiasmus It is boring to eat; to sleep is fulfilling.

Enjambment Delay of the final word or phrase of a sentence to the beginning of the following line

Enjambment I think I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

Hyperbaton Words that naturally belong to one another are separated for emphasis or effect

Hyperbaton Alone he walked on the cold, lonely roads.

Hyperbole Exaggeration, emphatic overstatement

Hyperbole Waves high as mountains broke over the reef.

Litotes Deliberate understatement

Litotes Jackie Robinsons breaking of baseball’s color barrier was no small accomplishment.

Metaphor A comparison in which one thing is said to be another

Metaphor Henry was a lion on the battlefield.

Metonymy One word closely related to another used to suggest the other word

Metonymy The Crown had absolute power in the Middle Ages.

Onomatopoeia The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe

Onomatopoeia The burning crackled and hissed; now and again an owl hooted somewhere in the darkness.

Personification Giving human qualities to animals or objects

Personification Love enfolded us in her arms.

Polysyndeton Use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some may be excessive

Polysyndeton Marge and Susan and Anne and Daisy and Barry all planned to go for a picnic.

Simile Figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though

Simile He is like a mouse in front of the teacher.

Synchesis Interlocked word order, ABAB

Synchesis I run and shoot, fast and accurate.

Tmesis Separation of one word into two parts (in Latin this is always the separation of a compound word)

Tmesis He shall be punished, what man so ever offended.