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alliteration
repetition of sounds at the beginning of a word
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Term
Definition
alliteration
repetition of sounds at the beginning of a word
assonance
repetition of a vowel sound
consonance
repetition of a consonant sound
cacophony
harsh discordance of sounds (e.g. jack cut crispy carrots)
euphony
pleasing sounds from a combination of words
parallelism
repetition of similar words/phrases/ideas to represent that the ideas are of equal or higher value & importance
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
alliteration | repetition of sounds at the beginning of a word |
assonance | repetition of a vowel sound |
consonance | repetition of a consonant sound |
cacophony | harsh discordance of sounds (e.g. jack cut crispy carrots) |
euphony | pleasing sounds from a combination of words |
parallelism | repetition of similar words/phrases/ideas to represent that the ideas are of equal or higher value & importance |
isocolon | parallelism relating to equal length (syllables/word count) |
chiasmus | words are repeated in reverse order (e.g. the fire burned, burned the fire) |
antithesis | opposition or contrast of ideas/words in a balanced or parallel structure |
climax | height of suspense; turning point in literature; sentence structured in increasing importance |
anticlimax | an event/conclusion/statement that is less powerful than built up |
paraprosdokian | a sentence/phrase in which the second half is surprising and causes one to rethink the first half |
anaphora | repetition of the first word/phrase in successive sentences |
epistrophe | repetition of a word/phrase at the end of a phrase/sentence |
epanalepsis | repetition of a word/phrase at regular intervals; a sentence starts & ends with the same word |
anadiplosis | repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next |
commoratio | attempting to prove a point by repeating it several times in different ways |
tautology | repetition of a word/phrase without specific purpose/meaning; redundancy |
anacoluthon | a construction involving a break in grammatical sequence |
anastrophe | inversion of typical word order |
parenthesis | an aside; an explanatory part of a sentence that cannot stand on its own |
apposition | two elements, normally noun phrases, placed side-by-side so that one element modifies/defines the other |
hysteron proteron | a figure of speech in what should be last comes first; an inversion of the natural order (e.g. I die! I faint! I fail!) |
ellipsis | omission of words when something is implied; can be done without an ellipses (...) |
juxtaposition | placing of contradictory things next to one another |
asyndeton | omission of conjunctions |
polysyndeton | repetition of conjunctions |
metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word/phrase literally denotes one object/idea in place of another |
simile | figure of speech comparing two items with 'like' or 'as' |
personification | giving human/living traits to non-living objects |