Stylistic Devices/Figurative Language

The repetition of the same initial sound in two or more words.

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses for emphasis.

Expressions of strong contrast balanced against each other for emphasis.

An exclamatory address to an imaginary or absent person or thing as if it were alive.

The omission of conjunctions in a series of words or phrases.

A crisscross word or grammatical order ABBA.

The use of two nouns connected by a conjunction instead of a noun and a modifier.

An arrangement of words in an unusual order.

An arrangement of words (meaning) where the logical order is reversed.

The affirmative is expressed by denying its opposite.