Stylistic Devices

It is well known that the study of the sentence and its types and especially the study of the relations between different parts of the sente...

Poetic words, as the term itself implies, are used primarily in poetry. They may be likened to terms in more than one way. First of all they...

Oxymoron (Greek oxys + moros - "pointedly foolish") is a stylistic device the syntactic and semantic structures of which come t...

There was an Old Man of Coblenz,  The length of whose legs was immense;  He went with one pronce,  From Turkey to France, That sur...

Hyperbole (Greek- "excess, exaggeration") is a deliberate overstatement or ex­aggeration, the aim of which is to intensify quali...