Literary Devices ( RHETORIC )

LITERARY DEVICES [REHTORIC]

Figures of speech:

1. Figure based on similarity : 

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Allegory
• Parable
• Fable

2. Figure based on Association:

• Metonymy
• Synecdoche
• Transferred epithet
• Allusion

3. Figure based on Contrast: 

• Antithesis
• Epigram
• Oxymoron
• Climax
• Anti-climax
• Condensed sentence

4. Figure based on Imagination: 

• Personification
• Apostrophe
• Pathetic fallacy
• Personal metaphor
• Vision
• Hyperbole

5. Figure based on Indirectness: 

• Innuendo
• Irony
• Periphrasis
• Euphemism

6. Figure based on Sound: 

• Pun
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration
• Assonance

7. Figure based on Construction: 

• Interrogation
• Exclamation
• Chaiasmu
• Zeugma
• Litotes
• Hendiadys
• Hyperbaton
• Asyndaton
• Polysyndeton 
• Epanaphora
• Palilogia

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SLST English Grammar syllabus for class 11 - 12

SLST ENGLISH GRAMMAR SECTION: 
 (XI-XII)

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For class 11- 12 .

1. Common errors/ Sentence Improvement
2. Phrasal Verbs.
3. Article-Preposition.
4. Voice change.
5. Narration change.
6. Mood.
7. Tense.
8. Number and gender.
9. Sentence forms.     (simple,complex,           compound , clause). 
10. Joining and Splitting.
11. Verbs (subject-verb agreement)
12. Literary devices (rhetoric)
13. Prosody (scansion)






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