Literacy devices you must know Flashcards
It Is when the weather or the atmosphere describes the mood.
Pathetic Fallacy
- For example, when the weather is rainy people are sad and depressed
2nd example, the dark night could symbolise something supernatural like 3AM Satan etc…
It is where words are linked to an idea.
Semantic field
- For example, PPE, 2m and Hand Sanitiser, Head of Year link to COVID.
It is when events in the text surprises the characters. Something not expected!
Irony
- For example,Mr Birling offering a 1000
It is the repetition of the vowel sound.
Assonance
I am too cool for school. Oooooo
It is the repetition of the vowel sound.
Assonance
I am too cool for school. Oooooo
It is when you say something in an indirect manner.
Euphemism
He is not with us anymore.
Reptation of harsh sound
Words such as ‘P’ ‘D’ ‘B’
Plosive
It is when you give people animal-like qualities
Zoomorphism
For example, John barked at me / John shouted at me.
What is best secondz?
Beginning
Ending
Sentence length
Time
Shift in focus
Echoes from earlier in the text
Contrasts
Order of ideas/events
Narrative perspective
Discourse markers (connectives) and dialogue
Zooming into description
A brief, indirect reference to a place, person, thing or idea that holds, historical, mythological or literary significance is called..
An Allusion
‘I incline to Cain’s heresy,’ he used to say. ‘I let my brother go to the devil in his quaintly own way’
Reference to the bible story
A description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect:
Caricature
What are some other structural techniques?
-Tone
Slang
Colloquialism
A 2/3 word sentence
A fragment
Where the same words are rearranged in a different order
Chiasmus
All for one, and one for all
It is the repetition of the last word of a preceding clause. The word is used at the end of a sentence and then used again at the beginning of the next sentence.
Anadiplosis
She opened a café, a café that ruined her financially.
A figurative use of words and phrases that stimulates more than one of the senses.
Synaesthesia
“Back to the region where the sun is silent.”
Here, Dante binds the sense of sight (sun) with the sense of hearing (silent).
The term “interrogative” is applicable to any sentence or construction that asks a question.
Interrogative
That painting is excellent, isn’t it?
A sentence containing two negatives making it have a negative meaning overall
Double negative
I didn’t hear nothing
