stylistics
Alliteration
1. Is derived from Latin’s “Latira”. It means “letters of alphabet”. It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.
2. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse.
Around the rock the ragged rascal ran.
But a better butter makes a batter better.
A big bully beats a baby boy.
Park Place.
Mary marveled at the magnificent monument.
Anadiplosis
The term anadiplosis is a Greek word which means “to reduplicate”. It refers to the repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause.
Repetition of the words or phrase at the end of one sentence, line, or clause at the beginning of the next.
“The mountains look on Marathon – And Marathon looks on the sea…”
“The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story!”
“He retained his virtues amidst all his – misfortunes — misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent.”
“When I give, I give myself.”
"I am Sam, Sam I am."
Anaphora
Is the use of an expression the interpretation of which depends upon another expression in context).Repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect.
Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!
She didn't speak. She didn't stand. She didn't even look up when we came in.
Why I never walked away? Why I played myself this way?
“Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better and better”
“I want my money right now, right here, all right?”
Bathos or anticlimax
Is a sudden drop from elevated to the commonplace that produces a comic or ridiculous effect.A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; the opposite of climax.
1. Is derived from Latin’s “Latira”. It means “letters of alphabet”. It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.
2. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse.
Around the rock the ragged rascal ran.
But a better butter makes a batter better.
A big bully beats a baby boy.
Park Place.
Mary marveled at the magnificent monument.
Anadiplosis
The term anadiplosis is a Greek word which means “to reduplicate”. It refers to the repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause.
Repetition of the words or phrase at the end of one sentence, line, or clause at the beginning of the next.
“The mountains look on Marathon – And Marathon looks on the sea…”
“The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story!”
“He retained his virtues amidst all his – misfortunes — misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent.”
“When I give, I give myself.”
"I am Sam, Sam I am."
Anaphora
Is the use of an expression the interpretation of which depends upon another expression in context).Repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect.
Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!
She didn't speak. She didn't stand. She didn't even look up when we came in.
Why I never walked away? Why I played myself this way?
“Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better and better”
“I want my money right now, right here, all right?”
Bathos or anticlimax
Is a sudden drop from elevated to the commonplace that produces a comic or ridiculous effect.A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; the opposite of climax.