Common stylistic devices
| stylistic device | description | author’s intention |
| accumulation | The use of multiple similar words | Underline a topic/idea |
| alliteration | Multiple following words with the same sounding beginning character | Focus on an aspect |
| anaphora | repetition of the same word at the start of some sentences | emphasize a topic/idea/statement |
| climax | Expressions with an intensification/rise | Focus on an aspects with a funny/ironic effect |
| comparison | To compare | Underlining something similar |
| Contrast | Difference like hot and cold | Focuses on differences |
| ellipsis | Leave out words but meaning remains | Emphasizes left out words |
| enumeration | List of words to one topic | Prove statement e.g. examples |
| hyperbole | An obvious overstatement in a picture | Convince / underline an opinion |
| irony | Meaning the opposite | Entertain/humour/critic |
| metaphor | An indirect comparison (by using an picture) | Comparing to things and showing their similarities |
| parallelism | Repeating similar structures | Entertain the reader |
| personification | Giving human property to an object or animal like a smiling sun | Demonstrating an idea or action |
| repetition | Repeating a word family or structure | Emphasize a statement |
| rhetorical question | A question you don’t have to answer or the answer is given | Underline a statement |
| sarcasm | Mean irony | Being mean + irony |
| simile | Comparison with “like” or “as” | Underline something similar |
| Symbol | An object/place/action/person is something special like a pidgin for peace | Give it more importance/weight |