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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Playing with Words
Lexicon; Section
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Slide2Words and Sound
Woosh
!
Slide3Alliteration
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
Slide4Consonance
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
Slide5Assonance
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?
Slide6Assonance + Consonance = Rhyme!
Assonance
CONSONANCE
RHYME
S
ou
nd
of the P
ou
nd
Slide7Onomatopoeia
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
Slide8Don’t Forget
Be aware of euphonious and cacophonous language too!
Slide9Playing with Words
Slide10Wit
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.
Slide11Hyperbole
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!
Slide12Understatement
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!
Slide13Litotes
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.
Slide14Hyperbole
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
Slide15Paradox
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
Slide16Oxymoron
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?
Slide17Pun
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
Slide18Antanaclasis
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
Slide19Syllepsis
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
Slide20Paronomasia
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”