Stylistic devices

Lexical stylistic devices

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Alina Sakharova

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Language	English
Category	Literature
Level	Primary School
Created / Updated	28.02.2013 / 28.02.2013
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hyperbole

/haɪˈpɜː(r)bəli/

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It's a SD in which emphasis is achieved through deliberate exaggeration. ("I have told it to you a thousand times").

understatement

/ˈʌndə(r)ˌsteɪtmənt/

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A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is. ("Her family is just one aunt").

oxymoron

/ˌɒksiˈmɔːrɒn/

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It's a SD which contains words with opposite meaning ("a bitter sweet experience").

simile

/ˈsɪməli/

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A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as. ("She dealt with moral problems as a cleaver deals with meat.").

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