Some Important Stylistic Devices

Stylistic devices makes your speeches, essays etc. more interesting and lively and help you to get and

keep your reader's ( listener's ) attention .

So here are Some important stylistic devices

Simile

Simile : the word " Simile " comes from the Latin ' Similis ' ' like ' and means ' likeness '

A simile is a comparison between two things using the words ' like ' or ' as '

in the comparison is expressed, explicit.

These are used typically to help the reader get a true of a trait .

Tow things are compared directly by using ' like' ( A is like B )

Examples

She walks like a gorilla .

The cookie in Mark's lunchbox was as hard as a rock .

Metaphor : compares two different things in a figurative sense . Unlike in a simile ( A is like B ), "Like"

is not used in metaphor ( A is B ) .

The comparison is implied, implicit. the word " metaphor " comes from the Greek,

meta-over ; ' phero '-cany.

it means literally, " a carrying over" ; and by this figure of speech a word is transferred,

or carried over, from the object to which it belongs to another in such a manner

that a comparison is implied, though not clearly stated.

Example

Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvest and food. { Henry Ward Beecher }

Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy was a rock

in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind,taking root in many nations.