Stylistic/ rhetorical devices

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e.g. () or - attribution of personality to an impersonal thing (from object level living being) a play on words, usually the humorous use of a word with two meanings or of diffe words that sound the same attribution of object features to an abstract concept (from abstract level →> object level) @jojo_study words or phrases appear several times in one text a question that need not be answered because the answer is either obvious or else it cannot example The main solution is so simple that even a small child can understand it. I like cheese. Cheese is the best thing ever. I want you to panic, I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. You say nothing in life is black or white but that's a lie. You are happy now but you won't be tomorrow Let a man acknowledge his obligations to himself, his family, his country and his God. /Veni, vidi,vici. He can speak German, English and Greek. The dog was put to sleep. (= was killed) .... definitely the best book on the whole planet! We must fight climate change! well, that was clever! Now it's broken.. I am here to say our house is on fire. (in a speech about climate change) e.g. meow, click, scratching, buzzing e g. the living dead, open secret Man learns from history that man learns nothing from history. I'ts great for you, it's good for me, it's bad for the rest/ Either we prevent a 1.5 degree of warming or we don't. Either we choose to go on as a civilization or we don't. When I travelled to Canada - the best country in the world - I saw a lot of nature. And the media has failed to create broad public awareness./The city that never sleeps I was struggling to figure out how lightning works, but then it struck me. Santa Claus' helpers are known as subordinate Clauses. Let freedom ring! "March for your rights!", he cried, and we marched and marched. And why should I be studying for a future that soon may be no more, when no one is doing anything to save that future? device rhyme simile stereotype symbol synecdoche understatement explanation similarity of sounds in two or more words a comparison with words of comparison: "like","as", "than", "as if " fixed (positive/negative) ideas about other people or things sth. concrete stands for an abstract idea a part of something represents the whole or the whole represents a part example A teacher is like a preacher. He fought like a tiger. Americans are stupid. This image/idea is reinforced by the writer's use of.... The writer repeats (language example) to draw attention to.….... (Language example) is repeated to emphasise the key idea of..... •This use of (language example) reminds the reader that.... • The writer wants the reader to recognise that... rose (love), crucifix/cross (→ Christian religion), white pigeon (-freedom), ring (>loyalty), milk and honey (paradise) I need a new set of wheels. (za new car); England lost the match. (=the football team) to make sth./a situation seem less important/big/dangerous/ Referring to Cristiano Ronaldo: He has some money. ...than it really is useful phrases •The repetition of.../The use of... words such as... emphasises/underlines.... • The detailed description of... with the help of... adjectives evokes /makes the reader fell.... This word/phrase suggests/means that.... The meaning of this word/phrase is.... • The writer uses (language example) to focus the reader's attention on.... •The use of (language example) used to describe (subject) reinforces the reader's awarene of... •The writer's use of (language example) is further reinforced through the use of (another language example)... •By using the (language example) and (language example). the writer is able to contrast...