Stylistic devices 1:

(The examples are taken from texts which we dealt with in class.)


Depreciatory adjectices/terms:

Appreciatory adjectices/terms:

Descriptive adjectices:

Onomatopoeia:

Metaphor:

Simile:

Personification:

Alliteration:

Anaphora:


ugly

awkward

desperate

forlorn

mud

junk

dirt road

stuff

lovely

deceitful

beautiful

fine

blue

purple

gray

warm

cold

clear

thick

early

squished

squashed

hushed

rumbles

rattling

twitch

turns a landscape into a line drawing (36)

its wheels churn thick whirls of dust

...exceeds that of fine carpeting

...resembling...a bishop who...

like spit on a griddle

like porpoises

like victorious tank commanders after a battle

in well-behaved years

dog and assistant dog

winter has forgotten its lines

the storm is muscular enough...

snow edits out corn stubble

rabid teenagers turn reasonable

a clear, cold day

skiers, not skaters

the decaying dollar

whiny wives

snug and snowed-in

man-made snow, machine-made s.

make heroes manifest

No snow. (l.1)

No snow. Not anywhere in New England. (l.22)

No snow, bygod, since .... (l. 40)

But there is no snow. (l. 63) [= variation to the repetition of "no snow"]

When snow has piled chest high...

No snow to mire cars, (L.112)

Still it does not snow. (l. 137) [= variation plus change of word category from noun to verb, a stylistic device which is called "polyptoton"]