Tham khảo tài liệu 'từ và nghĩa trong tiếng anh 7', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | APPENDIX A Literary terms Here are a few of the most widely used literary devices. You will probably be familiar with them in practice but perhaps cannot always put a name to them. alliteration the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words and syllables Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran. climax I came I saw I conquered epigram a short pithy saying Truth is never pure and rarely simple. Oscar Wilde euphemism an indirect way of referring to distressing or unpalatable facts I ve lost both my parents. they ve died She s rather light-fingered. she s a thief hyperbole exaggeration Jack cut his knee rather badly and lost gallons of blood. What s for lunch I m starving. I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. Shakespeare Hamlet irony saying one thing while clearly meaning the opposite For Brutus is an honourable man. Shakespeare Julius Caesar litotes understatement He was not exactly polite. very rude I am a citizen of no mean city. St Paul boasting about Tarsus and hence about himself metaphor a compressed comparison 219 APPENDIX A LITERARY TERMS Anna flew downstairs . her speed resembled the speed of a bữd in flight Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care. Shakespeare Macbeth No man is an island entire of itself. John Donne metonymy the substitution of something closely associated The bottle has been his downfall. alcohol The kettle s boiling. the water in the kettle The pen is mightier than the sword. what is written onomatopoeia echoing the sound Bees buzz- sausages sizzle in the pan ice-cubes tinkle in the glass. Frequently alliteration vowel sounds and selected consonants come together to evoke the sounds being described Only the monstrous anger of the guns Only the stuttering rifles rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth oxymoron apparently contradictory terms which make sense at a deeper level The cruel mercy of the executioner .
