Alliteration - "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.", Metaphor - "Life is a journey." (Life is not literally a journey, but this helps us imagine it that way.), Parallelism - "I came, I saw, I conquered." (Each part of the sentence has the same structure.), Parataxis - "I woke up, I got dressed, I ate breakfast." (Simple sentences strung together.), Simile - "She is as strong as an ox." (She is not literally an ox, but the simile tells us she is very strong.), Anaphora - "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight at the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." (Winston Churchill's speech), Neologism - "Invented this cool new app to track my fitness - it's called 'Fitastic'" (Fitastic might be a new word the speaker created), Fronting - "Absolutely! I can help you with that." (Fronting the adverb "Absolutely" for emphasis), Pathetic Fallacy - "The wind whispered through the trees." (Wind can't whisper, but it creates a vivid image.), Personification - "The sun smiled down on us." (The sun can't smile, but it creates a friendly image.), Hyperbole - "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!" (You wouldn't really eat a horse), Symbolism - A dove is often used as a symbol of peace.,

Unit 2 - Linguistic Devices (Examples)

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