Writing(영작)--What are stylistic devices(수사적 표현이란 무엇인가)?

What are stylistic devices?

 

In literature and writing, a figure of speech (also called stylistic device or rhetorical device) is the use of any of a variety of techniques to give an auxiliary meaning, idea, or feeling.

 

Sometimes a word diverges from its normal meaning, or a phrase has a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it. Examples are metaphor, simile, or personification.

 

Stylistic devices often provide emphasis, freshness of ｅxpression, or clarity.

 

Here is a list of some of the most important figures of speech:

 

Figures of Speech(수사적 표현) - Accumulation(집적)

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What is accumulation?

Accumulation is a figure of speech in which the arguments previously stated are presented again in a forceful manner. The word accumulation comes from Latin and it means mass, pile or heap.

Examples of accumulation

In the following examples, scattered arguments are gathered and presented together to make the point compact and forceful.

• "He is the betrayer of his own self-respect, and the waylayer of the self-respect of others; covetous, intemperate, irascible, arrogant; disloyal to his parents, ungrateful to his friends, troublesome to his kin; insulting to his betters, disdainful of his equals and mates, cruel to his inferiors; in short, he is intolerable to everyone." Attributed to Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium, IV.52
• generation goes and a generation comes, yet the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, and rushes back again to the place from which it rises. The wind blows south, then returns to the north, round and round goes the wind, on its rounds it circulates. All streams flow to the sea, yet the sea does not fill up.”   (Ecclesiastes, The Old Testament)