Stylistic Devices 15.11.23

What a happy woman was Rose to be Lady Crawly. Her husband used to drink every night and beat his Rose sometimes.

• Irony

• Metonymy

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

She possessed two false teeth and a sympathetic heart.

• Zeugma

• Pun

• Irony

• Oxymoron

A leopard changes his spots, as often as he goes from one spot to another.

• Zeugma

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Pun

He was so tall that I was not sure he had a face.

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Metonymy

• Metaphor

It was done not without taste.

• Metonymy

• Litotes

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

I was not a little suprised.

• Litotes

• Hyperbole

• Metonymy

• Irony

I have a Rembrandt at home.

• Irony

• Antonomasia

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Find the type of Epithet: Dancing thoughts, laughing wrinkles.

• Simple epithet

• Compound epithet

• Personificated epithet

• String epithet

Find the type of Epithet: go-it-alone attitude

• phrase epithet

• sentence epithet

• string epithet

• simple epithet

strange and exciting places; a miserable, long-nosed, dirty-loking scoundrel.

• simple epithet

• sentence epithet

• string epithet

• reversed epithet