Periphrasis: The use of more words to say something that could be said with less words.…
| Words, and groups of words, that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the component words…
2. Anaphora- repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses (EX: Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America; there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States (from: Obama at 2004 Democratic National Convention.))…
Hyperbole- Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. “I must have told you that a thousand times”(Porter, 413). The effect of the hyperbole in “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” is showing that even sick, granny still has a quick temper in teaching her kids life lessons. This brings her character more to life as readers realize that before she was sick she was a caring mother who corrected her children often.…
Example: "Your clutch is on his life, and you cause him to die daily a living death, and still he knows you not." (Page 153 bottom of page)…
4. Allegory – A representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another.…
1. allegory: a literary work that has a second meaning beneath the surface, often relating to a fixed, corresponding idea or moral principle.…
Irony: The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.…
Prose or verse in which the objects, events or people are presented symbolically, so that the story conveys a meaning other than and deeper than the actual incident or characters described. Often, the form is used to teach a moral lesson.…
Hyperbole is an exaggeration that creates emphasis or effect. For example, there are a thousand reasons to go vegan ("Examples of Rhetorical Devices").…
A euphemism is the substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener;[1] or in the case of doublespeak, to make it less troublesome for the speaker.[citation needed] It also may be a substitution of a description of something or someone rather than the name, to avoid revealing secret, holy, or sacred names to the uninitiated, or to obscure the identity of the subject of a conversation from potential eavesdroppers. Some euphemisms are intended to be funny.…
2. alliteration – when two or more words in a poem begin with the same letter or sound.…
Parallelism - the repetition of phrases or sentances that are similar in structure or meaning for rhetorical effect…
A figure of speech is the use of a word or words diverging from its usual meaning. It can also be a special repetition, arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it, as in idiom, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, or personification. Figures of speech often provide emphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity. However, clarity may also suffer from their use, as any figure of speech introduces an ambiguity between literal and figurative interpretation. A figure of speech is sometimes called a rhetorical figure or a locution.…
A euphemism is defined as a non-harmful phrase or word used to substitute another word or phrase that is seen as, in some way, unpleasant. These words and phrases, though created with the best possible intentions, are slowly causing the English language to decay.…