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Stylistic Devices in Songs/papers/ Poetry: Stylistic Devices Are The Tools For Refining Words Into Memorable Lines

The document discusses stylistic devices that can be used in speeches, essays, poems and songs to make them more interesting and engage audiences. It lists several examples of stylistic devices such as metaphor, simile, irony, puns and provides guidelines for analyzing examples of these devices by comparing them to other things in a figurative way and explaining their meaning. Students are asked to find examples of different stylistic devices from various sources and analyze how they are used.

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Stylistic Devices in Songs/papers/ Poetry: Stylistic Devices Are The Tools For Refining Words Into Memorable Lines

The document discusses stylistic devices that can be used in speeches, essays, poems and songs to make them more interesting and engage audiences. It lists several examples of stylistic devices such as metaphor, simile, irony, puns and provides guidelines for analyzing examples of these devices by comparing them to other things in a figurative way and explaining their meaning. Students are asked to find examples of different stylistic devices from various sources and analyze how they are used.

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Stylistic devices in songs/papers/ poetry

Stylistic devices make your speeches, essays more interesting and lively and help
you to get and keep your reader’s or listener’s attention.
Stylistic devices are the tools for refining words into memorable lines. Take, for
example, the epitome of English literature: “To be, or not to be? That is the question…”
In that two-sentence line, Shakespeare used four stylistic devices: rhetorical question,
iambic meter, antithesis, and caesura.
Find at least 5 examples of each stylistic device from the list. You can choose any
source and analyze speech patterns from poetry, songs, newspapers.
Stylistic devices:
Accumulation Epigram
Adjunction Epiphora (or epistrophe)
Adnomination Hyperbole
Alliteration Hypophora
Allegory Irony
Allusion Litotes
Anaphora Oxymoron
Antanaclasis Personification
Antonomasia Periphrasis 
Anticlimax Puns
Antiphrasis Meiosis
Antithesis Merism
Apostrophe Metalepsis
Assonance Metaphor
Cataphora Metonymy
Chiasmus Simile
Climax Syncdoche
Dysphemism Tautology
Ellipsis Understatement
Euphemism Zeugma and syllepsis

EXAMPLES OF ANALYSING:
Metaphor compares two different things in a figurative sense. Unlike in a simile
(A is like B.), “like” is not used in metaphor (A is B.).
Example:
 Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvest and food.
(H.W.Beecher) – explanation (what does it mean?)
 Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and
democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the
wind, taking root in many nations. – explanation (what does it mean?)

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