Group Members:

 Ana Marie Parba

 Leah Mae Alegado
 Ronie Mae Sabanal

1. Alliteration - is the repetition of an initial consonant sound in words

that are in close proximity to each other.

Example:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/alliteration/

2. Assonance - is the repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds

within words, phrases, or sentences.

Example:
Ana eats the sweet treats. https://literaryterms.net/assonance/

3. Apostrophe - device, an apostrophe is a poetic phrase or speech

made by a character that is addressed to a subject that is not
literally present in the literary work.

Example:
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star / How I wonder what you are.
https://literarydevices.net/apostrophe/

4. Antithesis - is a rhetorical and literary device with parallel grammar

structure but which establishes a nearly complete or exact
opposition in ideas or characters. It can be effective in emphasizing
drastic differences between opposing concepts.

Example:
No pain, no gain
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.” – Goethe

https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-antithesis-definition/

5. Allusion - is a reference to a well known person, character, place

or event that a writer makes to deepen the reader’s understanding
of their work. A concise way to communicate a lot of meaning.

Example:
I’m not Sherlock Holmes to figure that out.
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6. Hyperbaton – is a rhetorical device that involves changing the

typical or expected word order in a sentence. It is used to create
emphasis, add poetic flair, or draw attention to specific words or
ideas.

Example:
This I must see.

https://youtu.be/tIlsBYKmJHg?si=mfVtwP-6_LtL1u-n

7. Litotes-is a common literary device, most often used in speech,

rhetoric, and nonfiction. A litotes is not literal. Instead, litotes is
intended to be a form of understatement by using negation to
express the contrary meaning. This is a clever use of language in
its combination of negative terms as a function to express a positive
sentiment or statement.

Example:
The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time by William
Wordsworth
Not seldom from the uproar I retired
Into a silent bay, or sportively
Glanced sideway, leaving the tumultuous throng,
To cut across the image of a star
That gleam’d upon the ice

*In his poetic work, Wordsworth utilizes litotes by pairing the words
“not” and “seldom.” This negation implies that the poet means “often” by
stating “not seldom.” In this way, he creates a sense of understatement
about the frequency with which he separates himself from a crowd or
busy environment to appreciate images and the presence of nature.
Wordsworth’s use of litotes as a literary device creates a sense of poetic
language and introspection for the reader as well as the poet himself.
Therefore, paradoxically, by understating how often the poet escapes into
nature, it actually emphasizes the importance of the action. The litotes
allows the escape to become significant for the reader as well.
(https://literarydevices.net/litotes/)

8. Meiosis-can be defined as a witty understatement that belittles or

dismisses something or somebody; particularly by making use of
terms that give an impression that something is less important than
it is or it should be. This device describes the use of
 understatement to highlight a point, or explain a situation, or to
understate a response used to enhance the effect of a dramatic
moment.

Example:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975 (By Graham Chapman, John
Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin)

King Arthur: “The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest
shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water.”

Peasant: “Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords

is no basis for a system of government. Power derives from the
masses not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.”

King Arthur: “Be quiet!”

Peasant: “You can’t expect to wield supreme power because some

watery tart threw a sword at you.”

King Arthur: “Shut up!”

Peasant: “If I went around saying I was an emperor because some

moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me…”

*Just check the use of the words moistened bint the peasant says to
King Arthur. This is the best use of meiosis which belittles the king
himself.
(https://literarydevices.net/meiosis/)

9. Periphrasis- originates from the Greek word periphrazein, which

means “talking around.” It is a stylistic device that can be defined as
the use of excessive and longer words to convey a meaning which
could have been conveyed with a shorter expression, or in a few
words. It is an indirect or roundabout way of writing about something.

Example:
The Importance of Being Earnest (By Oscar Wilde)
“I was within a hair’s-breadth of the
last opportunity for pronouncement,
and I found with humiliation
that probably I would have nothing to say.”

(https://literarydevices.net/periphrasis/)
10. Prolepsis- is defined as a device in literature where the order of
events in a story is disrupted so that a future plot point is told earlier
in the narrative than it actually occurs. The term is documented as
early as 1578 and comes from the term prolambanein where the
prefix pro- means before, and lambanein means to take. In Greek,
this term originally meant anticipating.

Example: Dead Man Walking by Helen Prejean

(https://study.com/academy/lesson/prolepsis-in-literature-definition-
examples.html)