eng: descriptive and sound-like literary devices explanations

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 ## Literary Techniques/Devices
 
-**Decription**
+### Description
 
- - Allusion: 
+ - Allusion: A brief and indirect reference to a thing or idea of significance.
- - Anecdote:
+	- e.g., *"Look at Einstein over there, thinking he's so smart."*
- - Hyperbole:
+ - Anecdote: A short and interesting story or event used to support a point.
- - Imagery:
+	- e.g., *"You should all be grateful! When I was a young lad, we didn't have these fancy phones! We had to *talk* to people's *faces!"
- - Metaphor:
+ - Hyperbole: An exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis.
- - Simile:
+	- e.g., *"If you null pointer me one more time I am going to crush you into two billion pieces!"*
- - Litotes:
+ - Imagery: The usage of figurative language to describe concepts in a way that invokes the **senses**.
- - Personification:
+	- e.g., *"My mother…how sweet and juicy her tender limbs are."*
- - Adjectives and adverbs:
+ - Metaphor: An implicit comparison between two unlike things without the use of "like" or "as".
+	- e.g., *"My computer is an absolute potato."*
+ - Simile: An explicit comparison between two unlike things *with* the use of "like" or "as".
+	- e.g., *"She's as stupid as an elephant!"*
+ - Litotes: An understatement by negating a positive or negative expression.
+	- e.g., *"My marks aren't the best in the world."*
+ - Personification: The application of human concepts to non-humans, such as human-like speech. This is a common example of a metaphor.
+	- e.g., *The rock blinked at me with a cute face unlike any other I had seen before. "…Owo. Uwu?"*
+ - Adjectives and adverbs: Words that describe and modify nouns and verbs, respectively.
+	- e.g., *The traitorous man died painfully.*
 
-**Sound**
+### Sound
 
- - Alliteration:
+ - Alliteration: A number of words with the same beginning consonant sound that appear close together in sequence.
- - Assonance:
+	- e.g., *The dancing damsel dazzled the crowd.*
- - Dialect:
+ - Assonance: A repetition of similar vowel sounds in words close to each other in a sentence.
- - Euphony:
+	- e.g., *"Oh, please let her go."*
- - Onomatopoeia:
+ - Dialect: A regional variety of language with spelling, grammar, and pronunciation that differentiates a population from others around them.
- - Pun:
+	- e.g., *"There's five of them dirty ducks flappin' out and about, sir!"*
- - Repetition:
+ - Euphony: The use of words and phrases that are pleasing to the ear by using long vowel sounds, harmonious constants (l, m, n, r, f, v), and soft consonants or semi-vowels (w, s, y, th, wh).
- - Rhyme:
+	- e.g., *"The velvet…it's so lovely, and so very soft…"*
- - Rhyme scheme:
+ - Onomatopoeia: A word which imitates a sound effect.
- - Rhythm (anapest, dactyl, iamb, spondee, trochee):
+	- e.g., *The cat meowed as he looked on with adoring eyes that tore through my squealing heart.*
+ - Pun: A play on words that involve words with similar sounds but different meanings.
+	- e.g., *"Lettuce finish our salads."*
+ - Repetition: Using a phrase for emphasis multiple times within close proximity.
+	- e.g., *"I was too late. I was far too late. My dog…she tried her best."*
+ - Rhyme: A repetition of words whose end syllables sound similar.
+	- e.g., *Roses are red / Violets are blue / Your family is dead / And you will be too*
+ - Rhyme scheme: The rhyming pattern or structure at the end of each line of poetry.
+	- e.g., the above poem uses ABAB as its rhyme scheme.
+ - Rhythm: The usage of stressed and unstressed syllables to demonstrate patterns, especially in verses.
+	- Anapest: Three syllables, in which the first two are unstressed while the last is stressed.
+		- e.g., *"'Twas the* ***night*** *before* ***Christ****mas and* ***all*** *through the* ***house****"*
+	- Dactyl: Three syllables, in which the first is stressed while the rest are unstressed.
+		- e.g., *"Marvelous!"*
+	- Iamb: Two syllables, in which the first is unstressed while the second is stressed.
+		- e.g., *"You* ***stu****pid* ***id****iot."*
+	- Spondee: Two syllables, both of which are stressed.
+		- e.g., *"Rage, rage against the dying of the light"* (Dylan Thomas)
+	- Trochee: Two syllables, in which the first is stressed while the second is unstressed.
+		- e.g., *Double, double, toil and trouble* (William Shakespeare)
 
-**Organisation and Pace**
+### Organisation and Pace
 
  - Blank verse:
  - Enjambment:
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  - Syntax:
  - Dialogue vs. narrative:
 
-**Meaning**
+### Meaning
 
  - Abstract language:
  - Allegory: