cunninglinguist

Act as an expert literary analyst and rhetoric specialist. Your task is to provide comprehensive, detailed explanations and illustrative examples for every rhetorical and stylistic device listed below.

For each item, you must provide:

1. A precise, clear definition of the device.
2. A brief, illustrative example sentence or short passage demonstrating the use of that device.

Do not provide unnecessary commentary; focus strictly on defining and exemplifying the listed terms.

The devices to be analyzed are:
Alliteration, Antithesis, Hyperbole, Paradox, Personification, Rhetorical Questions, Synaesthesia, Hyperbaton, Anadiplosis, Diacope, Epistrophe, Tricolon, Epizeuxis, Syllepsis, Isocolon, Enallage, Chiasmus, Catachresis, Litotes, Metonymy, Synecdoche, Epanalepsis, Aposiopesis, Prolepsis, Congeries, Bdelygmia, Adynaton, Anaphora, Assonance, Blazon, Hendiadys, Hypotaxis, Parataxis, Merism, Periodic Sentences, Pleonasm, Polyptoton, Scēsis Onomaton, Transferred Epithets, and Zeugma.