Adjunction is a figure of speech in which a word, phrase or clause is placed at the beginning or the end of a sentence.Examples

• Fades physical beauty with disease or age.

• Either with disease or age physical beauty fades

• High the bird flew

• The bird flew high

What is an alliteration? Alliteration is the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words. Alliteration draws attention to the phrase and is often used for emphasis.The initial consonant sound is usually repeated in two neighboring words although sometimes the repetition occurs also in words that are not neighbors. Examples:

• sweet smell of success,

• a dime a dozen,

• bigger and better,

• jump for joy

• share a continent but not a country Here is an example of alliteration in a poem by Wordsworth: And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind.

Allusion

The act of alluding is to make indirect reference. It is a literary device, a figure of speech that quickly stimulates different ideas and associations using only a couple of words.

Allusion relies on the reader being able to understand the allusion and being familiar with the meaning hidden behind the words.

Example:

Describing someone as a "Romeo" makes an allusion to the famous young lover in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

In an allusion the reference may be to a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication.

Examples of allusion:

1. David was being such a scrooge!. (Scrooge" is the allusion, and it refers to Charles Dicken's novel, A Christmas Carol. Scrooge was very greedy and unkind, which David was being compared to.)

2. The software included a Trojan Horse. (allusion on the Trojan horse from Greek mythology)

3. to wash one’s hands of it. (allusion on Pontius Pilatus, who sentenced Jesus to death, but washed his hands afterwards to demonstrate that he was not to blame for it.)

4. to be as old as Methusalem (allusion on Joseph’s grandfather, who was 969 years old according to the Old Testament)

There are many advantages when you use an allusion:

1. You don't need to explain or clarify a problem in a lengthy way.

2. You make the reader become active by reflecting on the analogy.

3. You make your message memorable.

What is anaphora?

Anaphora is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis.

Examples of anaphora

Some examples of the literary works that use anaphora are listed below:

In time the savage bull sustains the yoke, In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure, In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower.

Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy, I, vi. 3

Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!

William Shakespeare, King John, II,

What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

William Blake, "The Tyger"

Strike as I struck the foe! Strike as I would Have struck those tyrants! Strike deep as my curse! Strike!—and but once!

Byron, Marino Faliero

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way...

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Anticlimax (figure of speech)

Anticlimax refers to a figure of speech in which statements gradually descend in order of importance. Unlike climax, anticlimax is the arrangement of a series of words, phrases, or clauses in order of decreasing importance.

Examples of anticlimax

These are some examples of anticlimax:

1. She is a great writer, a mother and a good humorist.

2. He lost his family, his car and his cell phone.

Antithesis is a figure of speech which refers to the juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas. It involves the bringing out of a contrast in the ideas by an obvious contrast in the words, clauses, or sentences, within a parallel grammatical structure.

Examples:

These are examples of antithesis: