SD definition types examples

metaphor is the transference of 1) sustained This is a day of your

some quality from one
object to another
metaphor golden opportunity.
2) catachresis
3) allusion For somewhere there is
4) personification in the hay a needle, and
5) antonomasia among the sleeping dogs
6) allegory there is one on whom I
shall put my foot, and by
shooting an arrow into
the air it will hit a glass-
house!

Aitken took great care he

got his pound of flesh.

O fair Peace!

You are my Prince

Charming.

No rose without a thorn

metonymy a figure of speech in 1) synecdoche Hands wanted.
which one word or 2) periphrasis
phrase is substituted for Alterations and
another with which it is improvements on the
closely associated truth.

irony is a stylistic device also 1) antiphrasis A good student you are!

based on the (‘Praise Stands
simultaneous realization for Blame’) Clever bastard!
of two logical meanings 2) astheism (‘Blame
— dictionary and Stands for
contextual, but the two Praise’)
meanings stand in
opposition to each other
polysemantic effect is the interaction of “Then hate me if thou
primary and derivative wilt, if ever now.
logical meanings Now while the world is
bent my deeds to cross.”
zeugma use of words to modify 1) prozeugma Her beauty pierced mine
or govern two or more (beginning eye, her speech mine
words although its use position) woeful heart, her
may be grammatically or 2) hypozeugma presence all the powers
logically correct with (ending position) of my discourse. —
only one 3) epizeugma Puttenham
(beginning or
 ending position) Friends, Romans,
4) mesozeugma or countrymen, lend me
synzeugma your ears...
(middle position)
"Either with disease or
age beauty fades"
First the door locked, and
then his jaw.

pun is a stylistic device based

on the interaction of two
well-known meanings of
a word or phrase (more
independent than
zeugma); a play on
words