Literary Devices

·         Analogy: compares two things, which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea or object by showing how the idea or object is similar to some familiar one. While simile and analogy often overlap, the simile is generally a more artistic likening, done briefly for effect and emphasis, while analogy serves the more practical end of explaining a thought process or a line of reasoning or the abstract in terms of the concrete, and may therefore be more extended.

Example: Day is to month as minute is to hour. (Day:Month::Minute:Hour)

·         Anaphora: A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.                                                                           Example: “Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better and better”

·         Antanagoge: placing a good point or benefit next to a fault criticism, or problem in order to reduce the impact or significance of the negative point

Example: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

·         Antimetabole: reversing the order of repeated words or phrases (a loosely chiastic structure, AB-BA) to intensify the final formulation, to present alternatives, or to show contrast

Example: “Eat to live, not live to eat.”- Socrates

·         Antiphrasis: one word irony, established by context

Example: “The giant was 3 feet tall.”