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Santa Monica College Stylistic Device in Communication Questions
I’m working on a communications multi-part question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.
Here is a list of stylistic devices.
Stylistic Devices:
- Imagery – Sensory language
- Similes – using “as” or “like” to compare two things
- Metaphors – describing one thing in terms of another
- Personification – assigning human qualities to inanimate objects
- Hyperbole – exaggeration
- Alliteration – Repeat consonant
- Assonance – Repeat vowel
- Antithesis – presenting opposites in one sentence
- Repetition – repeating a phrase/sentence
- Original language – creating a slogan
Assign a stylistic device to each of the following statements (each one is used only once)
- They fought like cats and dogs.
- His house is large enough to have it’s own zip code.
- My computer throws a fit every time I try to use it.
- Tiger eyes.
- We can succeed when work together. We can succeed when we play together.
- Eerie silence was shattered by her scream.
- Try to light the fire.
- We teach people how to remember, we don’t teach them how to forget.
- The barbarians broke through the barriers.
- The ultimate driving machine.