Stylistic Devices

- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness…” (Tale of two cities, DICKENS)

- “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” (JFK)

• Simile

• Anaphora

• Parallelism

• connotation

- Is there a black sheep in your family?

- Love is a battlefield. (Pat Benatar)

• Simile

• Anaphora

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

The land belongs to the crown.

• Simile

• Connotation

• Example

• Metonymy

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. (Charles Schwab)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Pun

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. (Neil Armstrong)

• Paradox

• Anti-climax

• Antithesis

• Euphemism

I must be cruel only to be kind" (Hamlet)

"The Sound of Silence" (Simon and Garfunkel, 1965)

• Paradox

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Simile