ENGLISH 124 Midterm: Classnotes (1)

• School: U of M
• Department: English Language And Literature
• Course: ENGLISH 124
• Professor: Amrita Dhar

Document Summary

Can be immediately perceived with our senses. Artful deviation from the ordinary pattern or arrangement of words. Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning and end of words. When two or more words have similar vowel sounds. Artful deviation from the ordinary meaning or principle signification of a word. Take a bigger picture and only use a part. When one thing is replaced with something else very closely related to it. A statement that one thing is something else when in the literal sense it"s not. A comparison of two things, indicated by some connective, usually like, as, or than, or a verb such as resembles. When an adjective is misplaced to something that would never experience that adjective. Exaggerated use in order to emphasize a point. An ironic figure of speech that deliberately describes something in a way that is less than the case.