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Literary Devices Flashcards

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Pathetic Fallacy

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Weather/Nature reflects inner experience of a narrator or other characters

Calm peaceful wind

Sets mood, shows intensity of emotions

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Anaphora

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Repeating of words at beginning of clause, phrase or sentence

“I have a dream “ speech

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Allusion

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Unexplained reference to something like famous works/individuals

Chocolate was her Achilles heel

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Anadiplosis

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When a word at the end of clause is repeated near the beginning of the following clause

When you LOVE, LOVE with all your heart

Gives persuasive/urgent effect

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Oxymoron

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Two contradictory terms or ideas intentionally paired together

proud humility

Convey strong opposing emotions that often occur together

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Dramatic irony

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Audience has knowledge of critical information while characters are in the dark

Audience sees Mick sneaking up on Davies

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Rhetorical Question

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Question asked for another reason than to get an answer

What would you do?

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Polysyndeton

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Coordinating conjunctions such as ‘and’ are used several times in succession

we ate roast beef and squash and biscuits and potatoes and com and cheese

Emphasises each element hence more memorable, overwhelms, childlike exuberance

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Internal Rhyme

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Rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines in poetry

I drove myself to the lake
And dove into the water

Musical, Rhythm

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Enjambment

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Continuation of a sentence across a line break without terminating punctuation mark

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I/Did, till we loved?

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerates for the sake of emphasis

My bag weighs a tonne

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Asyndeton

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Omitting words like ‘and’, ‘or’, ‘but’

I expect my dog to chew my pillows, my cat to claw my furniture

Makes elements the same level, taps on readers’ imagination to possibility of other elements. Prob used alongside caesurae

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Onomatopoeia

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Words evoke the actual sound of the thing they describe

Boom Ticktock Dingdong

Vivid imagery

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Assonance

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Same vowel sounds repeats within a group of words

I might like to take a flight to an island in the sKY

Repeated sound can resonate the meaning or evoke emotion (‘o’ sound as low and unnerving)

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Situational Irony

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Unexpected, paradoxical or perverse turn of events

wife cuts hair to buy chain for husband, husband buys sells watch to buy comb for wife

That people are always at mercy of unpredictable universe

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Verbal irony

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What they say is different from what they mean

“well that was pleasant’ after the dentist

shows wit or stupidity

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Metaphor

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Compares different things by saying that one thing is the other

Love is War

communicate personal or imaginary experiences

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18
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End rhyme

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Rhymes that occur in the final words of lines of poetry

And having none, yet I keep
A heart to weep for thee

19
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Epizeuxis

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Words or phrase is repeated in immediate succession

Words, words, words

Forceful, vehement tone–>minor rallying cry/despair

20
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Symbolism

A

Using one thing to represent something more abstract

Buddha represents patience

21
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Alliteration

A

Some sound repeats in groups of words (either in the first letter or in the stressed syllables)

Eg. Bob brought box of bricks to the basement

22
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Personification

A

Non human things described with human attributes

The clouds have given it all

23
Q

Weather/Nature reflects inner experience of a narrator or other characters

Calm peaceful wind

Sets mood, shows intensity of emotions

A

Pathetic Fallacy

24
Q

Repeating of words at beginning of clause, phrase or sentence

“I have a dream “ speech

A

Anaphora

25
Q

Unexplained reference to something like famous works/individuals

Chocolate was her Achilles heel

A

Allusion

26
Q

When a word at the end of clause is repeated near the beginning of the following clause

When you LOVE, LOVE with all your heart

Gives persuasive/urgent effect

A

Anadiplosis

27
Q

Two contradictory terms or ideas intentionally paired together

proud humility

Convey strong opposing emotions that often occur together

A

Oxymoron

28
Q

Audience has knowledge of critical information while characters are in the dark

Audience sees Mick sneaking up on Davies

A

Dramatic irony

29
Q

Question asked for another reason than to get an answer

What would you do?

A

Rhetorical Question

30
Q

Coordinating conjunctions such as ‘and’ are used several times in succession

we ate roast beef and squash and biscuits and potatoes and com and cheese

Emphasises each element hence more memorable, overwhelms, childlike exuberance

A

Polysyndeton

31
Q

Rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines in poetry

I drove myself to the lake
And dove into the water

Musical, Rhythm

A

Internal Rhyme

32
Q

Continuation of a sentence across a line break without terminating punctuation mark

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I/Did, till we loved?

A

Enjambment

33
Q

Exaggerates for the sake of emphasis

My bag weighs a tonne

A

Hyperbole

34
Q

Omitting words like ‘and’, ‘or’, ‘but’

I expect my dog to chew my pillows, my cat to claw my furniture

Makes elements the same level, taps on readers’ imagination to possibility of other elements. Prob used alongside caesurae

A

Asyndeton

35
Q

Words evoke the actual sound of the thing they describe

Boom Ticktock Dingdong

Vivid imagery

A

Onomatopoeia

36
Q

Same vowel sounds repeats within a group of words

I might like to take a flight to an island in the sKY

Repeated sound can resonate the meaning or evoke emotion (‘o’ sound as low and unnerving)

A

Assonance

37
Q

Unexpected, paradoxical or perverse turn of events

wife cuts hair to buy chain for husband, husband buys sells watch to buy comb for wife

That people are always at mercy of unpredictable universe

A

Situational Irony

38
Q

What they say is different from what they mean

“well that was pleasant’ after the dentist

shows wit or stupidity

A

Verbal irony

39
Q

Compares different things by saying that one thing is the other

Love is War

communicate personal or imaginary experiences

A

Metaphor

40
Q

Rhymes that occur in the final words of lines of poetry

And having none, yet I keep
A heart to weep for thee

A

End rhyme

41
Q

Words or phrase is repeated in immediate succession

Words, words, words

Forceful, vehement tone–>minor rallying cry/despair

A

Epizeuxis

42
Q

Using one thing to represent something more abstract

Buddha represents patience

A

Symbolism

43
Q

Some sound repeats in groups of words (either in the first letter or in the stressed syllables)

Eg. Bob brought box of bricks to the basement

A

Alliteration

44
Q

Non human things described with human attributes

The clouds have given it all

A

Personification

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