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π Words and Sound Woosh Alliteration Definition The repetition of sounds especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words Effects reinforces meaning unifies ideas supplies ID: 785107

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Slide1

Playing with Words

Lexicon; Section

π

Slide2

Words and Sound

Woosh

!

Slide3

Alliteration

Definition

The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words

Effects

reinforces meaning

unifies ideas

supplies

a musical

sound

echoes the sense of the passage

The silky snake subtly slithered…

“Don't dream it. Drive it.”

-Jaguar

Slide4

Consonance

Definition

Identical consonant sounds are preceded by a different vowel sound

Usually, the last or last accented syllable

Examples

“struts and frets”

Pitter-patter

Short and sweet

“Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade / How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood.” – Wilfred Owen

Slide5

Assonance

Definition

The repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words

Examples

It

beats

as it sweeps

… as it cleans!" – Hoover vacuum"I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless.“ – Thin Lizzy?

Slide6

Assonance + Consonance = Rhyme!

Assonance

CONSONANCE

RHYME

S

ou

nd

of the P

ou

nd

Slide7

Onomatopoeia

Definition

A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words.

Examples

“Bang!,” “whistle,” “

choo-choo

!”

“My stick fingers click with a snicker / And, chuckling, they knuckle the keys.” - Updike

Slide8

Don’t Forget

Be aware of euphonious and cacophonous language too!

Slide9

Playing with Words

Slide10

Wit

intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights

.

A witty statement is humorous, while suggesting the speaker’s verbal power in creating ingenious and perceptive remarks.

usually uses terse language that makes a pointed statement.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Slide11

Hyperbole

Definition

A figure of speech using deliberate

exaggeration or overstatement

The literal Greek meaning is “overshoot

.”

Examples

“My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires, and more slow” – Andrew Marvel

There are a million examples of hyperbole!

Slide12

Understatement

Definition

the ironic minimalizing of

fact,

a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said

presents

something as less significant than it

is

can be

humorous and emphaticExamples

“Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse” – Jonathan Swift

It’s just a flesh wound!

Slide13

Litotes

Definition

A

form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its

opposite

intensifies the sentiment intended by the writer, and creates the effect of strong feelings moderately conveyed.

Examples

That’s not a bad idea…

“If

you can tell the fair one's mind, it will be no small proof of your art, for I dare say it is more than she herself can do

.” --Alexander Pope

I will not be sad to see Christmas time begin.

Slide14

Hyperbole

Definition

From the Greek for “good

speech”

a

more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept.

may

be used to adhere to standards of social or political correctness or to add humor or ironic understatement.

Examples

“earthly remains” for “corpse”

“pre-owned” for “used”

“Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.” - Quentin Crisp

Slide15

Paradox

Definition

A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity.

A seemingly contradictory statement that exposes greater truths

Examples

“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude

.” – Henry David Thoreau

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.“

-Mother Teresa

For Mr. Egan

Slide16

Oxymoron

Definition

From

the Greek for “pointedly

foolish”

a

figure of speech wherein the author

groups or juxtaposes

apparently contradictory terms to suggest a

paradoxExamples“"How is it possible to have a

civil war?” – George Carlin“I must be cruel only to be kind.” – William Shakespeare

Who are you

callin

’ jumbo?

Slide17

Pun

Definition

play on

words

uses two meanings of

word

Not necessarily for humor

Examples

A new type of broom came out, it is sweeping the nation."Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana

.“ – Groucho Marx

Slide18

Antanaclasis

Definition

Repetition of a word in two different senses

The repetition of a word or phrase whose meaning changes in the second instance.

Examples

Your argument is sound...all sound

.” —

Benjamin Franklin

“If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm

.” —Vince Lombardi

Slide19

Syllepsis

Definition

When a single word that governs or modifies two or more others must be understood differently with respect to each of those words.

Use

of one word and two completers to force two

meanings

Examples

Fix

the problem, not the blame." —Dave Weinbaum

“He lost his hat and his temper”

“We must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang separately.” Benjamin Franklin

Slide20

Paronomasia

Definition

use

of words alike in sound, different in meaning

.”

Examples

Your

children need your presence more than your presents

.” – Jesse Jackson“A pun is its own reword”