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    Literary devices – Notes

    First set
     Ambiguity: a word, phrase or statement which can be interpreted with more than one
    meaning
     Pun: a play on words, often achieved with homophonic, homographic, homonymic
    words, or compound and recursive structures
     Anaphora: the repetition of the first part of a sentence to achieve and artistic effect
     Understatement: saying less than one means
     Antithesis: a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a
    sentence for a contrasting effect
     Apostrophe: an arrangement of words addressing a non-existent person or an abstract
    idea in such a way as if it were present and capable of understanding feelings.
     Appeal: to make a serious, urgent, or heartfelt request
     Assonance/Consonance: repetition of vowel sounds/consonant sounds
     Asyndeton/Polysyndeton: omission of conjunctions/use of conjunctions in close
    succession
     Atmosphere: emotional mood created by a literary work
     Chiasmus: a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrase
    Second set
     Paradox: an apparently contradictory statement that contains some truth
     Cacophony: loud or harsh sound
     Euphony: an agreeable sound
     Colloquialism: informal language; language that is “conversational”
     Epiphany: a moment of sudden realization or insight  point out turning point for
    character
     Enjambement: sentences being carried over from one line to the next without a pause
     can either emphasize a point or create a dual meaning
     Caesura: rhythmical pause in a line or sentence, usually in the middle of a line
     Diction: a writer’s or speaker’s choice of words
     Foil: a character with characteristics opposite to another character that are mean to
    highlight those of the other character
     Idiom: an accepted phrase or expression having a meaning different from the literal 
    help convey subtle messages
     P.O.V: someone’s angle of considering things; tells us their opinion or feelings
    can be: 1st person
    2nd person
    3rd person

    Third set
     Rhetorical question: a question that does not require an answer
     Connotation and denotation: second meaning to a word; the actual definition of a
    word
     Metonymy: replacing a word with another hat has an associated meaning
     Synecdoche: a part of something represents the whole
     Characterization: step by step presentation of characters in a book
     Epitaph: inscription on a tombstone in memory of the person
     Flashback/flashforward: interruptions that writers do to insert past events in order to
    provide background or context to the current events of a narrative
     Juxtaposition: two or more ideas, places, characters or their actions are placed side by
    side and compared
     Parallelism: the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or
    similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter.
     Wit: intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights

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