Expressive means and stylistic devices

transference of some quality from one

I jumped and struggled
object to another which has the power of
my way to the front of
realizing two lexical meanings
Metaphor the restless crowd. My
simultaneously; a comparison without
pulse shot in my ears. My
‘like’ or ‘as’ based on analogy and
face was burning hot…
partial similarity
a substitution of one item for another
item suggested by or closely related with The pen is mightier than
Metonymy
the first one; it is based on association the sword
connecting the two represented ideas
Take, for example, Petey
an imaginative comparison of two unlike Bellows, my roommate at
Simile objects belonging to two different the university. Same age,
classes same background, but
dumb as an ox.
The successful lawyers I
had observed were,
a stylistic device based on the interplay
almost without exception,
Epithet of emotive and logical meaning in an
married to beautiful,
attributive word, phrase, sentence
gracious, intelligent
women.
"Can you mean," I said
incredulously, "that
people are wearing
it is based on the simultaneous raccoon coats again?"
realization of two logical meanings – "All the Big Men on
Irony dictionary and contextual – which stand Campus are wearing
in opposition to each other them. Where've you
(delightful=awful) been?" "In the library," I
said, naming a place not
frequented by Big Men
on Campus.
Oxymoron it is a partially marked construction; a A yawn may be defined
combination of two words in which the
 meanings of the two clash, being
opposite in sense, being contradictory as a silent yell.
(sweet pain, a damned saint).
a deliberate overstatement/exaggeration
Somebody coughed, and
of a feature essential to the
Hyperbole I expected the windows
object/phenomenon, intensifies the
to rattle.
feature, sometimes to an absurdity
indirect reference by word or phrase to a
historical, literary, mythological, biblical
The final examinations
Allusion act made in the course of speaking or
are judgment day.
writing. No indication of the source is
given
a special arrangement of words within a Cool was I and logical.
sentence by means of which one of the Keen, calculating,
Inversion
members of the sentence is put into perspicacious, acute and
prominence astute—I was all of these.
He is a nice enough
fellow, you understand,
a stylistic device with an intentional
but nothing upstairs.
splitting of an indivisible syntactic
Parcellation Emotional type.
structure into 2 or more isolated parts
Unstable.
separated by a pause from each other
Impressionable. Worst of
all, a faddist.
There were, ..., real silver
a device which consists of successive
spoons to stir the tea
phrases, clauses or even sentences. The
Parallel with, and real china cups
sentence structure is repeated, or just
constructions to drink it out of, and
some of its parts, but they should occur
plates of the same to hold
in succession
the cakes and toast in.
a stylistic device of connecting
They read and studied
sentences/phrase/syntagms/words by
and wrote and drilled. I
Polysyndeton using connectives (conjunctions and
laughed and played and
prepositions) before each component
talked and flunked.  
part
Rhetorical a special syntactic stylistic device, the How could you choose
 Petey Bellows over me?
Look at me—a brilliant
student, a tremendous
essence of which consists in reshaping
intellectual, a man with
the grammatical meaning of an
an assured future. Look
question interrogative sentence. Formally it is a
at Petey—a knothead, a
question, but semantically – a
jitterbug, a guy who'll
declarative sentence
never know where his
next meal is coming
from.
an omission of one/both principal Looks like rain. See what
Ellipsis members of the sentence, but their I mean? What’s
meanings are restored in the context happened? – Nothing.
a figure of speech consisting in an abrupt
My opponent is a
breaking off which leaves it for the
notorious liar. You can't
Aposiopesis reader to complete what has remained
believe a word that he is
unsaid. It is represented with a
going to say…
suspension mark (...)