Literary Devices

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the perspective of the story

point of view

intention or objective in a piece of writing

purpose

a similarity, on which a comparison can be made

analogy

a story told to make or support a point

anecdote

repetition of a vowel sound

assonance

those to whom a piece of writing is addressed; the people who the author hopes will read the peice

audience

prejudice or predisposition toward one side of subject

bias

a list of events, names, places

catalog

the way an author develops a character

characterization

sayings like "from the bottom of my heart" that have become overused the lose meaning

cliché

opposing forces

conflict

words that have the same definition but different emotional implications

connotation

the explicit or dictionary meaning of a word

denotation

word choice

diction

audience knows something characters don't

dramatic irony

convincing someone to believe/do something by appealing to authority or credibility

ethos

background information before or at the beginning of a piece

exposition

two characters that highlight opposite traits in one another

foil

when the author gives hints about what will happen later in the story

foreshadowing

an exaggeration meant to add effect

hyperbole

a saying that is unique to a culture or language and doesn't make sense when translated literally

idiom

expression of something which is contrary to the intended meaning

irony

convincing someone to believe/do something by appealing to logic

logos

comparing two unlike things by saying one thing is another thing

metaphor

a word that makes the sound it names

onomatopoeia

repetition of grammatical structure in a sentence or piece of writing

parallelism

convincing someone to believe/do something by appealing to their emotions

pathos

giving human qualities to a non-human entity

personification

use of available means of persuasion

rhetoric

comparing two unlike things using like or as

simile

when something happens differently than what was expected

situational irony

the author or person whose ideas are being presented

speaker

sentence structure or the use of dashes, colons, hyphens, fragments, parallelism

syntax

not meant to be taken literally

Figure of Speech

native speech or language of a place

vernacular

a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through a concrete story- a literal story with a deeper meaning

allegory

repetition of a consonant sound

alliteration

to support their claim, the author references something well-known by the general population

allusion

central idea to which all parts refer; insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work

theme

speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience

tone


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