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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