Stylistic devices

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Stylistic devices

A variety of techniques a writer can employ to express meaning.

Stylistic devices make language more memorable, poetic, powerful, convincing because they apeal to people's emotions.

Let's see how many of them you can recognise or define. Sometimes more than one answer is correct. 

I know more than 10 stylistic devices

Absolutely!

Maybe

Not yet

I can identify alliteration, assonance, consonance, anaphora, tricolon, personification, visual and auditory imagery, allusion, chiasmus, rhetorical question, hypophora

I think so

Not yet

The rifles rapid rattle

the r-sound is an example of

1. assonance
2. metaphor
3. alliteration
4. auditory imagery

The daffodils were dancing in the wind.

1. personification
2. chiasmus
3. anadiplosis
4. visual imagery

Order a New York pizza. A New York pizza which will change your life.

1. chiasmus
2. anadiplosis
3. allusion
4. gustatory imagery

Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country.

1. allusion
2. hypophora
3. asyndeton
4. chiasmus

He's a real Romeo with the ladies.

1. allusion
2. polysyndeton
3. organic imagery
4. parallelism

Don't you know how old he is? He's just 5!

1. rhetorical question
2. hypophora
3. asyndeton
4. parallelism

I'm exhausted! I've run 9K, cleaned the house, emptied the trash, paid the bills.

1. asyndeton
2. epistrophe
3. anaphora
4. polysyndeton

I have a husband. I have two kids. I have a cat.

1. tricolon
2. chiasmus
3. anaphora
4. visual imagery