stijlmiddel

Definitions of stijlmiddel
  1. noun
    a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
    synonyms: stijlfiguur
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    replica
    the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
    reticentie
    breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations)
    afkortingsteken
    address to an absent or imaginary person
    chiasma, chiasme, kruisstelling
    inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
    climax
    arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
    hendiadys
    use of two conjoined nouns instead of a noun and modifier
    hypallage
    reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face')
    klanknabootsing, onomatopee, onomatopoësis
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
    paraleipsis, praeteritio
    suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
    polysyndeton
    using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy')
    prolepsis
    anticipating and answering objections in advance
    metafoor
    language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
    epanalepsis
    repetition after intervening words
    epanodos
    repetition of a group of words in reverse order
    anafoor
    repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
    anafoor
    using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier
    ironie
    a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
    hyperbool, overdrijving
    extravagant exaggeration
    metafoor
    a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
    metonymia, naamwisseling
    substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
    oxymoron
    conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
    belichaming, incarnatie, personificatie, verpersoonlijking
    representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
    synecdoche
    substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa
    zeugma
    use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one
    type of:
    credo, devies, lijfspreuk, motto
    something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
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