Ling and Structural Devices

Caesura

punctuation in the middle of a line

Anaphora

repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of different lines

Volta

sudden change in tone or mood

Zoomorphism

giving humans non-human attributes or characteristics (op of personification)

Sibilance

repetition of the 's' sound of words close to each other

Juxtaposition

displays irony and contrasts ideas or elements

Paradox

displays contradiction in ideas and counterintuition

Personification VS Anthropomorphism?

Personification= giving non-living things human attributes or characteristics

Anthropomorphism= giving non-human entities human attributes or characteristics

Metaphor

comparing or relating something to what couldn’t literally happen or be

Juxtaposition VS Oxymoron?

Juxtaposition= opposite ideas side-by-side

Oxymoron= opposite words side-by-side

Enjambment

continuation of a sentence from one line of poetry to the next

Assonance

repetition of vowel sounds of nearby words

Juxtaposition VS Paradox?

Juxtaposition= opposite ideas side-by-side

Paradox= contradicting concept that reveals a hidden truth (a type of juxtaposition, so if unsure which one to identify as, say juxtaposition)

Synesthesia

describing a sense with a contradicting describing sense

Polysyndeton

Conjunctions. Like no punctuation:

I want to do this and that and that and draw and paint and all that.

Isocolon

Series of words or sentences in equal length and creates a rhyme

“You’ve got a lot to live. Pepsi’s got a lot to give.”

“You win some, you lose some.”

Hypophora

writer asks a question and then immediately answers it.

Epistrophe

repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a series of clauses or sentences

Formal/Informal diction

the words a writer chooses when talking to a specific audience.

Archetype

a very typical example of something

Anachronism

a person, thing, or event that is placed in a historical time where it does not belong

Allegory

expressing an idea using symbols

Cacophony

a harsh mixture of sounds (a lot of acoustic imagery)

Meter

a rhythm or combination of beats (stressed sand unstressed syllables)

Consonance

Repetition of a consonant sound

Chiasmus

grammar/words of one phrase reversed in the next

another eg: fair is foul, and foul is fair