Betty Botter bought some butter
alliteration
Bezug auf eine Person/ein Thema in einem anderen literarischen Werk
allusion
as useful as ( Vergleich mit etwas was ironischem)
analogy
Wiederholung von Wörtern oder Sätzen
anaphora
opposite ideas are put together in a sentence for a contrasting effect
antithesis
creating a strong effect with two extreme opposites
contrast
communicating directly to the audience Boy using you and we
direct address
Aufzählung
enumeration
more gentle expression
euphemism
making something seem better/worse than it really is
exaggeration
unrealistic exaggeration
hyperbole
bildhafte Darstellung
imagery
contrast in order to create humour
irony
thing represented by a word which is normally used different (kein like/as)
metaphor
sounds
onomatopoeia
combining contradictory things with opposite meanings eg. organized chaos
oxymoron
statement which, on closer inspection, reveals a kind of truth which at first seems contradictory eg. deep down he’s really very shallow
paradox
Its great for me, for you, for all of us
parallelism
attribution of personality to an impersonal thing
personification
single words that appear several times in one text -> for emphasis
repetition
question that Need not be answered
rhetorical question
comparison between things/ideas -> as, as if, like
simile
A part of something represents the whole
synecdoche
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