Terms With Examples II
more difficult examples to depict literary terms
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- Symbol
- In "Tom Sawyer," the treasure represents the end of the boys' journey and Tom's transition into manhood.
- Irony
- Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. (Shakespeare)
- Anadiplosis
- Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state; servants of fame; and servants of business. (Francis Bacon)
- Metonymy
- He is a man of the cloth.
- Hyperbole
- My vegetable love should grow, Vaster than empires, and more slow; An hundred years should got to praise Thine eyes and on thine forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest. (Andrew Marvell)
- Oxymoron
- I must be cruel only to be kind. (Shakespeare)
- Asyndeton
- But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. (Lincoln)
- Anaphora
- *We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender. (Churchill)
- Synecdoche
- I should have been a pair of ragged claws, Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. (T.S. Eliot)
- Climax
- One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. (Ulysses Tennyson)
- Litotes
- One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day.
- Antithesis
- Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. (Brutus)