Kinds of Sound

Meaning
Device
ALLITERATION It is a repetition
of the same
consonant sound.
ASSONANCE
It is the
repetition of the
same or similar
vowel sound.
CONSONANCE It has identical
consonants but
different vowels.
ONOMATOPOEIA The sound of the
word suggests its
meaning.
REPITITION
The use of same
word or phrase in
several lines

Example
Fall fathom five thy
father lies.
She combs her hair
with a comb that is
golden.
Spilled-spelled,
starred-stirred, gonegun
Crash, murmur, hiss,
cackle, scratch, cough

Figures of
Speech
SIMILE

Meaning

It
is
a
direct
comparison of two
unlike objects by
the use of like or
as.
METAPHOR
It is an implied
comparison.
PERSONIFICATIO It
gives
the
N
characteristics
of
human being to
inanimate objects.

Example
His face was
as red as a
desert
sunset.
I
was
a
lonely cloud.
The
mountain sat
upon
the
plain in his
tremendous
chair.

APOSTROPHE

HYPERBOLE

IRONY

METONOMY

It addresses an
absent person as if
present,
dead
person as if alive,
an
inanimate
objects
as
if
animate
It is deliberate and
extravagant
exaggeration
usually humorous.
It expresses an
idea and mean the
other.
It
replaces
the
name of the object

Goodbye,
proud world;
Im
going
home.

Before
me
stood
a
mountain of
man.
Silent
as
politician.
He
addicted

is
to

SYNECDOCHE
ANTITHESIS

LITOTES

which is closely
associated with it.
The part is used for
the whole.
It is a contrast in
words or clauses,
as well as in ideas,
in
order
to
emphasize
both
parts
of
the
contrast.

the battle.

Love is so
short,
forgetting is
so long.
Man
proposes,
God
disposes.
It emphasizes its War is not
subject
by healthy
for
conscious
children and
understatement.
for
living

OXYMORON

Two
contrasting
words are jammed
or put together.

UNDERSTATEME It is the opposite of

NT
hyperbole.
ALLUSION
A
reference,
explicit or implicit,
in previous history
or literature.
PARADOX

A contradictory or
incomplete
elements

things.
Found
missing,
silent
scream,
living dead
Its a little
warm today.
There is no
open
sesame to
the treasure
of learning.
Mine
eyes,
when
opened, with

statement which at
first,
it
seems
absurd but at a
closer reading, it
can communicate
real truth.
EPIGRAM

CLIMAX

It is a witty, short,
concise statement
which
has
the
nature
of
a
proverb.
It is which a series
of
thoughts
or
statements
are
arranged in the

thy
beauty
fillBut
when
theyre
closed they
see
thee
better still.
The fastest
colors
are
those
who
will not run.
He sacrificed
his business,
his
home,
and
his

ANTICLIMAX

EPITHET

order of increasing honor

for
importance.
political
gain.
It results when the He lost his
climatic order is wife,
his
reversed. It is often child,
his
used in humorous household
writing.
goods, and
his dog at
one
full
swoop.
It
is
a
word Alexander
generally
an the
Great;
adjective, used to Aristides the
impart strength or, just; Richard
ornament
to the
Lion

diction.

Hearted.