Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God Literary Devices – Flashcards

Deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect "

Literally means opposite, is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.

Asyndeton is derived from a Greek word asyndeton which means unconnected. It is a stylistic device used in literature and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases and in the sentence, yet maintain the grammatical accuracy.

Rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect. "Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you"

Placing an adjective after the noun it qualifies e.g. the soldier strong, Placing a verb before its subject e.g. shouts the policeman, Placing a noun before its preposition e.g. worlds between "Her mother is the lady of the house, And a good lady, and wise and virtuous. I nursed her daughter that you talked withal. I tell you, he that can lay hold of her, Shall have the chinks."

A sentence structure in which a main clause is followed by one or more coordinate or subordinate phrases and clauses. Contrast with periodic sentence. "I found a large hall, obviously a former garage, dimly lit, and packed with cots."

Parallelism is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter. Parallelism examples are found in literary works as well as in ordinary conversations. "Like father, like son."

A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word--usually with an emphatic climax. Contrast with loose sentence and cumulative sentence. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius."

Polysyndeton is a stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect. Polysyndeton examples are found in literature and in day-to-day conversations. "And Joshua, and all of Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had." (The Bible)

Syntax is a set of rules in a language. It dictates how words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought "It is darkest before the dawn"

A rhetorical term for a series of four members, usually in parallel form. "He and we were a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world; and in two minutes, with a sudden snap, one of us would be gone--one mind less, one world less."

Tricolon is a rhetorical term for a series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses "You are talking to a man who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe"

When something is like something else "her skin was like alabaster"

Appears to be contradictory, but makes some sense "The closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm"

Repetition of a sound in multiple words "buckets of big blue berries"

figure of explication using brief reference to a famous person, place, event, etc. "a swarm of locusts"

Exaggeration "its thundering snout could break rocks"

Giving human qualities to inanimate objects "the heart of America is heavy"

When something IS something else "beautiful symphony of brotherhood"

Two words that contradict each other, and oddly make sense "unbelievably believable"

Using part of a physical object to represent the whole object "20 eyes watched our every move"

When the last word in a sentence is repeated "of the people, by the people, for the people