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Understatement is a device that deliberately weakens a statement to sound ironical or softens it to sound more polite. Understatement is a common feature of the English language (especially British ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary techniques

A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary techniques

Simile is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things, often introduced by like or as. Other possibilities are for example: A is (not) like B A is more/less than B A is as … as B A is similar to ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary terms

The author / speaker raises a question, but doesn't answer it directly as he/she sees the answer (usually Yes or No) as obvious. Rhetorical questions are used to provoke, emphasise or ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary techniques

Repetition consists of words or phrases that are repeated throughout the text to emphasise certain facts or ideas. Example: Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end! »I wonder how many ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary techniques

A pun, also called paronomasia, involves a word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary techniques

Points of view refers to first or third person narration. In the case of first-person narrator, the narrator tells the story from his / her point of view. It is a limited point of view as the reader ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary techniques

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