5. What are stylistic devices?
● Stylistic devices are interesting or creative ways of using language that go
beyond expected or straightforward usage. According to the stylistic devices
definition, stylistic devices add an additional dimension to language beyond
its literal meaning.
6. ABOUT THE ARTIST
Taylor Swift is American pop and country music singer-
songwriter whose tales of young heartache
achieved widespread success in the early 21st century.
Swift has been described as a "music chameleon" for her
venture into diverse genres.
Swift has been referred to as one of the greatest songwriters
of all time and the best of her generation by several
publications.
Her confessional lyrics received positive reviews from
critics. They highlighted its vivid details and emotional
engagement, which they found uncommon in pop music.
7. Metaphor
The transference of some quality from one object to another.
● Your heart was glass, I dropped it.
● We were fresh page on the desk.
8. Metonomy
Is based not on identification but on some kind of association
connecting two concepts which these meanings represent
• You took the Polaroid of us
• You almost turning the red because you were
looking over me
9. Allusion
● Indirect reference by word or phrase to a historical, mythological
fact or to a fact of everyday life in the course of speaking or
writing
Try to change the
ending, Peter
losing Wendy
• reference to
“Peter Pan”
Your Midas touch
on Chevy door
• reference to
Greek
mythology
10. Hyberbole
● A deliberate exaggeration
a feature essential to the
object or phenomenon
• Fifteen years, fifteen million tears,
begging till my knees bled
• Saying goodbye is death by
thousand cuts
11. Epithet
A SD based on the
interplay of emotive
and logical meaning in
an attributive word and
give an individual
evaluation of some
features of this object
• Paper cut stings our paper thin
plans
• Cherry lips, crystal skies
12. Euphemism
● A word used to replace
unpleasant word or
expression by a
conventionally more
acceptable one
I’d meet you where
spirit meets the bone,
in faith forgotten land
13. Zeugma
● The use of the word in the same grammatical but
different semantic relations
You held your pride like you’ve should held me
14. Simile
To characterize one object by bringing it contact with
another object belonging to a different class of things
You call me up again just break me like a
promise
August sipped away like a bottle of wine
15. Antonomasia
The interplay between logical and nominal meanings of word
Hello, Mr. casually cruel
Mr. everything revolves around you
I’ve been Miss misery since your goodbye
And you’re Mr. perfectly fine
16. Antithesis
● A stylistic opposition which arises out of context thorugh the
expansion of objectively contrasting pairs
• You had your speech, you’re speechless
• I never grew up, it’s getting so old
• Rest of the world was black and white , but
we were in screaming colors
• Hell was the journey, but it brought me
heaven
17. Chiasmus
● A repetition of a syntactical pattern, but it has a
cross order of words and phrases
Never be so kind, you forget to
be clever
Never be so clever, you forget
to be kind
18. Litotes
● Stylistic device consisting of a peculiar use of
negative consructions
Life was never worse but never better
19. Periphasis
● A device which denotes the use of longer phrasing in
the place of possible shorter or plainer form of
expression
• But now my eyes leak acid rain on the pillow where you
used to put your head
• I coud feel the mascara run
