Oratory The art of eloquent, formal public speaking. TERM/DEVICE DEFINITION EXAMPLE ‘ADD YOUR OWN TECHNIQUE Alliteration The repetition of similar sounds, usually Robert Frosts poem “Out, out— contains the consonants, at the beginning of words. aliterative phrase “sweet-scented stuff.” ‘Allusion ‘ reference within a literary viork to a historical, | The title of Wiliam Faulkner's novel The Sound literary, or biblical character, place, or event. | and the Fury alludes to a line from ‘Shakespeare's Macbeth ‘Analogy Compares two things, which are alike in several | Just as a caterpillar comes out ofits cocoon, 50 respects, for the purpose of explaining or ‘we must come out of our comfort zone. clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea or object by showing how the idea or object is similat to some familiar one, ‘Aphorism ‘A short statement of truth or principle; a proverb, | "To errs human; to forgive, divine” ‘Apostrophe ‘A direct address to an inanimate object. “Twinkle, twinkle, litle star, How | wonder what you ate. ‘Assonance The repetition of vowel sounds in @ sequence of | The line “The monster spoke in a fow mellow nearby words. tone" (from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “The Lotos-Eaters") contains assonance in its repetition of the “o" sound Cliché ‘An expression that has been used and reused | “tum over a new leat,” so many times that it has lost its expressive power. ‘Consonance ‘The repetition of a consonant in a series of "yound and round the rugged rocks the ragged words, nut nevessarily atthe beginning, rascal ran.” Dietion Choice of words that are associated with “The competition will be keen, pitting champions different contexts, purposes and settings. against each other, and demonstrating the highest levels of physical endurance.” Discourse Categories of anguage that are associated with | “The football game was a hard-fought batlle, ‘groups, situations or cultural practices leaving only one side to emerge, bloodied but victorious,” shows the discourse of war being applied to a football game. Hyperbole ‘An excessive overstatement or conscious "Ive told you that a milion times already™ exaggeration of fact idiom ‘A common expression that has acquired a “it's raining cats and dogs" or “That cost me an meaning that iffers from its iteral meaning. _| arm and a leg.” Imagery Language that brings to mind sensory In the Cdyssey, Homer creates @ powerful impressions, image with his description of "rosy-fingered dawn."