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# Figures of Style A figure of style (or rhetoric) is a process that acts on language to create a sound or sense effect. The main figures of style that you will encounter in the texts you will study are presented below, in alphabetical order. ## Allegory (n.f.) Personification of an abstract ide...

# Figures of Style A figure of style (or rhetoric) is a process that acts on language to create a sound or sense effect. The main figures of style that you will encounter in the texts you will study are presented below, in alphabetical order. ## Allegory (n.f.) Personification of an abstract idea - Ô Mort, vieux capitaine, il est temps! ## Alliteration (n.f.) Repetition of one or more consonants in a group of words Alliterations and assonances --> Detect and comment on them ## Anaphora (n.f.) Repetition of a same expression or a same word at the beginning of a sentence or a verse. - Anaphore of "il y a" in poem Enfance III, by Rimbaud ## Antithesis (n.f.) 2 terms with opposite meanings in the same phrase ## Assonance (n.f.) Repetition of the same vowel in a group of words Alliterations and assonances --> Detect and comment on them ## Chiasmus (n.m.) Cross structure that associates 2 terms two by two without necessarily the need for a sense rapport. - He looks at it for a long time, looks for a long time without seeing - These walls, cursed by God, cursed by Satan, defiled