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Cataphora refers to a figure of speech where an earlier expression refers to or describes a forward expression. Cataphora is the opposite of anaphora, a reference forward as opposed to backward in ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary techniques

Assonance is a figure of speech that is found more often in verse than in prose. It refers to the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences. Example: "That ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary techniques

Apostrophe is an exclamatory rhetorical figure of speech, when a speaker or writer breaks off and directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea. Example: "Hello darkness, my old ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary techniques

Antiphrasis is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used to mean the opposite of its normal meaning to create ironic humorous effect. From the Greek : anti "opposite" and phrasis, ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary techniques

Anticlimax refers to a figure of speech in which statements gradually descend in order of importance. Unlike climax, anticlimax is the arrangement of a series of words, phrases, or clauses in order ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary techniques

Antanaclasis is a rhetorical device in which a word is repeated and whose meaning changes in the second instance. Antanaclasis is a common type of pun. Examples: 1. Put out the light, then put out ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary techniques

Adjunction is a figure of speech in which a word, phrase or clause is placed at the beginning or the end of a sentence. Examples: Fades physical beauty with disease or age. Either with disease or ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary techniques

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