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Prof.sa A. Napolitano

Francesca Faraone matr. N° 403/000062

Alliteration, a literary device mainly used by poets, is the succession of

three or more words, beginning with the same consonant.

You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife.

HEERLIJK

HELDER

HEINEKEN

Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of

successive clauses or verses.

Everybody doesn't like something, but

A rhetorical term for the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced

phrases or clauses

Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring

words

The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or

actions they refer to.

Several parts of a sentence or several

sentences are expressed similarly to show

that the ideas in the parts or sentences are

equal in importance.

A figure of speech in which two things are explicitly compared,

usually in a phrase introduced by "like" or "as."

In rhetoric, mounting by degrees through words or sentences of

increasing weight and in parallel construction, with an emphasis on the high point

or culmination of a series of events or of an experience.

A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two

unlike things that actually have something in common.

The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement

or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or

presentation of the idea.

Identity or close similarity of sound between accented syllables.