Rhetorical Devices

4. "Hear the mellow wedding bells..." (Edgar Allan Poe)
6. The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite.
7. Placing two contrasting elements side by side to highlight their differences.
9. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom..." (Charles Dickens)
10. A word that phonetically imitates or suggests the sound that it describes.
12. Vivid descriptive language that appeals directly to the physical senses.
14. An expression whose figurative meaning cannot be understood from its literal words.
15. "I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you / Till China and Africa meet..." (W.H. Auden)

1. An idea, emotion, or feeling that a word invokes beyond its literal dictionary definition.
2. "Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me –" (Emily Dickinson)
3. "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing..." (Edgar Allan Poe)
5. "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." (Shakespeare)
8. "Parting is such sweet sorrow..." (Shakespeare)
11. "O my Luve's like a red, red rose / That’s newly sprung in June..." (Robert Burns)
13. An indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work outside the text.
16. A humorous play on words that sound similar but carry completely different meanings.