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Alliteration is when there isa
repetition of sound within a phrase or
sentence.
E.g. She sells seashells on the seashore.
Anaphora
Anaphora is when a word is repeated
multiple times within a phrase.
E.g. He had one apple, one banana
and one pear.
Antithesis is applying a juxtaposition
of ideas which are contrasting in a
statement that is balanced.
E.g. Man proposes and God deposes.
Assonance is the similarity in sound
between vowels in the middle of
neighbouring words.
E.g. How now, brown cow.
Euphemism is the replacement of a phrase
which might be deemed offensive by one
which implies the same meaning but does
not carry offence with it.
E.g. Instead of ‘he died’ you would say ‘he
passed away.”
Irony is a statement which conveys the
exact opposite meaning of what is
literally being said.
E.g. The fire station burnt to the ground.
Apostrophe is speaking to an object or
item that is not alive as if it were in
fact, alive.
E.g. Come on trousers, you have to fit me.
Chiasmus is when two sentences are
balanced against one another but with.
the words reversed.
E.g. Work to live and do not live to work.
Hyperbole is a term which uses an
exaggeration to add a more dramatic
meaning to the sentence.
E.g. My bag weighs a tonne.
Litotes is an understatement which
applies a negative to express the
meaning of the affirmative.
E.g. That dress is not too bad
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