The document explains various stylistic devices used in creative writing, including definitions and examples. It covers techniques such as portmanteau, allusion, oxymoron, hypophora, symbolism, and synecdoche. Each device is illustrated with specific examples to demonstrate its use in literature.

1. Stylistic Devices
Ms. Airyl Mae Policianos
Creative Writing - Teacher

2. Stylistic Device
It is the use of any of a variety
of techniques to give an auxiliary
meaning or idea to the literal
one.

3. BROMANCE
CHILLAX
COSPLAY
EMOTICON

4. Portmanteau
Two words are used to form a new one.

5. Portmanteau
Examples:
Breakfast + Lunch =
Friend + Enemy =
Three + Repeat =

6. You’re my Mona Lisa.

7. ALLUSION
An indirect reference to a famous person
or event outside the text in which it
occurs; it may be literary, historical, or
biblical.

8. ALLUSION
Example:
You are my Achilles’ Heel
You are a Solomon in making
decisions
You’re an Einstein.

9. Act Natural
Original Copy
Jumbo Shrimp

10. OXYMORON
Two contradictory terms are used
together in a phrase.

11. OXYMORON
Found Missing
Peace Force
True Lies

12. “Why is it better to love than to be
loved? - It is surer”

13. Hypophora
- The author/speaker raises a question and also
gives an answer to the question.
- Often, the question is raised at the beginning
of a paragraph, then answered at the end.

14. Hypophora
"Do you know the difference between
education and experience? Education is
when you read the fine print; experience is
what you get when you don't."

15. Dove = Peace
Heart = Love
House = Home

16. Symbolism
a technique that uses a
concrete object to represent
an abstract idea.

17. Symbolism
Blood = Defeat
Armor = Protection

18. “We are living under the same
roof”

19. Synecdoche
uses a part to represent a
whole

20. Synecdoche
Examples:
“Did you bring your wheels?”
“Hide behind bars”

21. Portmanteau
Allusion
Oxymoron
Hypophora
Symbolism
Synecdoche