aice language identy examples

Anaphora

If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?

Antimetabole

All for one and one for all! / With my mind on my money and my money on my mind. (Snoop Dogg) / It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

Epiphora

I want pizza, he wants pizza, we all want pizza!

Epimone

Put money in thy purse; follow thou the wars; defeat thy favor with a usurped beard; I say, put money in thy purse. It cannot be that Desdemona should long continue her love to the Moor--put money in thy purse--nor he his to her: it was a violent commencement, and thou shalt see an answerable sequestration: but put money in thy purse. - Shakespeare

Epizeuxis

I heard Alaska is cold, cold, cold!

Diacope

To be or not to be.

Polyptoton

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Asyndeton

We came, we saw, we conquered.

Polysyndeton

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Enumeratio

His name is Brad; Brad loves oil changes and a tune up; Brad is my first car.

Rule of three/list of three/Tricolon

We are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Accumulation

The river glided like liquid diamond, flowing through stunted rocks, seeping into the muddy soil, and percolating in the earth’s lap.

Appositive Phrase

My dog, a Golden Retriever, loves to swim.

Adjectives Out of Order

The old house, decayed and abandoned, surrendered to the fire.

Simile

That dog is as happy as a pig in mud.

Metaphor

Her smile is a ray of sunshine.

Hyperbole

I’ve told you a billion times / I’ve done this a thousand times.

Imagery

Countless brown-flecked sparrows were twittering in the eaves of the rickety red barn.

Register

Formal, Casual, Intimate.

Tone

Giving context and revealing the author's feelings and perspective, such as serious, humorous, formal, or sarcastic.

Syntax

The type of sentence structure the author uses.

Active Voice

The thief robbed the store. / I ate the entire pie.

Passive Voice

The store was robbed. / The entire pie was eaten.

Phrase

by the brook / dancing in the dark / on the doorstep.

Clause

There are two types; dependent and independent.

Independent Clause

John danced wildly. / Dancing wildly, John fell off the table.

Dependent Clause

Because the cat ate too much food / who was onboard the Titanic / When we went to the store.

Subordinate Conjunctions

After, If only, Unless, Although, In order to, Until, As, Now that, When, As if, Once, Whenever, As long as, Provided, Where, As though, Rather than, Whereas, Because, Since, Wherever, Before, So that, Whether, Even if, That, While, Even though, Though, Within, If, Without, Besides.

Relative Clause

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. / There's something (that) you should know. / Dogs that like cats are very rare. / My brother, who is a doctor, lives in New York. / Stratford-upon-Avon is the town where Shakespeare was born.

Relative Pronouns

who, which, that, whose, whom, when, or where.

Rhetorical Fragment

So gruesome a scene.

Rhetorical Question

Do I look like I was born yesterday? / Do I look like a bank?

Simple Sentence

My cat ate and vomited a large quantity of the puppy’s kibble. / John is a runner. / Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were the first astronauts on the moon.

Compound Sentence

Dogs bark, for they want attention. / I have a pet iguana; his name is Fluffy. / Ellen is a fantastic dancer; however, she lost the dance contest.

Coordinate Conjunctions

FANBOYS: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So.

Conjunctive Adverb

again, anyway, meanwhile, accordingly, also, however, next, consequently, besides, instead, then, hence, finally, now, nevertheless, henceforth, further, otherwise, thereafter, therefore, furthermore, contrarily, thus, moreover, conversely, incidentally, nonetheless, subsequently, namely, likewise, indeed, still, specifically, similarly, certainly, nevertheless, undoubtedly.

Complex Sentence

When she arrived at the airport, the plane had already taken off. / He called his mother because he missed her.

Compound-Complex Sentence

After the concert ended, my friend and I went to the diner, and we ate pancakes.

Exclamatory Sentence

I can't believe we won!

Declarative Sentence

We lost the game.

Imperative Sentence

Get down! / Do your homework. / Look at the moon.

Interrogative Sentence

Where is the bathroom?

Telegraphic Sentence

Susan danced.

Short Sentence

We ran to the window to see Santa.

Medium Sentence

not discussed in analysis.

Long Sentence

She was tall, and had kept her dark-brown hair loose and long all her life, save for a leather barrette such as she wore now, which held only her forelocks behind her head to flow down her back.

Participial Phrase

Grown in the Amazon rainforest, uña de gato is famous worldwide for its healing properties. / Having eaten authentic tacos in Mexico, Andrew stopped enjoying Taco Bell. / The woman wearing the big red clown nose is my girlfriend. / Our parents found us walking the dog at midnight.

Alliteration

The child bounced the ball at the backyard barbecue.

Allusion

Achilles' heel (a weakness), Pandora's box (a source of trouble), and catch-22 (a no-win situation), saying someone is Einstein (very intelligent) or has a Mona Lisa smile (mysterious).

Allegory

George Orwell's novel Animal Farm, which uses farm animals to represent figures of the Russian Revolution.

Analogy

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - Macbeth, Act V, William Shakespeare.

Apostrophe

O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rest, and let me die. - Romeo and Juliet, act 5, scene 3.

Juxtaposition

All is fair in love and war.

Dramatic Irony

Romeo and Juliet: The audience knows Juliet's death is a hoax, but Romeo does not, leading him to take his own life when he finds her in the tomb.

Verbal Irony

Saying "You're right on time!" to someone who arrives an hour late to a meeting.

Situational Irony

The firehouse burned down.

Onomatopoeia

Bam! Pow! / The steak sizzled on the grill.

Oxymoron

Jumbo shrimp / Same difference.

Pun

The shovel was a ground-breaking invention.

Symbolism

A dark, stormy night = impending danger.

Connotation

Home = an emotional term for where you live.

Denotation

House = non-emotional term for where you live.

Acronym

UNESCO = United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

Inclusive Diction

We shall fight for our country.

Anastrophe

Never have I seen such beauty instead of I have never seen such beauty.

Lexical Field

The set of words player, referee, ball, goal, team, stadium is part of the lexical football field. Carrot, potato, and eggplant are part of the lexical field of vegetables.

Semantic Field

Confinement, trapped, and punishment are a semantic field related to the idea of 'prison'.

Intensifier

really, very, absolutely.

Neologism

Hangry, binge-watch, McJob.

Jargon

Artist jargon includes terms related to artistic techniques like chiaroscuro (strong light and dark contrast) or contrapposto (a pose where weight is shifted to one leg), and vocabulary for describing qualities like texture, composition, and saturation.

Slang

Dude, hang ten, radical are all a part of surfer slang.

Colloquial Language

Y’all, No cap, Pop (for a soda).

Idiom

I caught the train by the skin of my teeth = I only just caught the train in time.

Euphemism

My dog passed away (instead of saying he died).

In Media Res

Star Wars: A New Hope (Episode IV), which begins with a spaceship being attacked, placing the audience in the middle of an ongoing conflict without a traditional introduction.