Literary Devices

• Apostrophe: addressing a non-existent person or an abstract idea in such a way as if it were present and capable of understanding feelings

“Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand?

Come, let me clutch thee!

I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.”

• Assonance: the use of words that have the same or similar vowel sounds

                                         "summer fun" 

                                           "bright sky"

                                             "rise high"

                        "I feel restless and depressed."

• Asyndeton: omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses

"I came, I saw, I conquered"

"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle"

• Catachresis: use of the wrong word for the context

"blind mouths"

"Honey, you are a regular nuclear meltdown. You'd better cool off."

• Chiasmus: an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases

"Do I love you because you are beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you?"