LITERARY DEVICES Flashcards
a literary device used to express large, complex ideas in an approachable manner.
ALLEGORY
a literary device that places someone or something associated with a particular historical time in the wrong time period
ANACHRONISM
this plot device marks the end of a section of a narrative with the express purpose of keeping audiences engaged in the story.
CLIFFHANGER
Storytellers use this irony as a useful plot device for creating situations in which the audience knows more about the situations, the causes of conflicts, and their resolutions before the leading characters or actors.
DRAMATIC IRONY
Foreshadowing, or slyly indicating a future event, is one technique a writer can use to create and build suspense
FORESHADOWING
is a literary tool that makes audiences laugh, or that intends to induce amusement or laughter. Its purpose is to break the monotony, boredom, and tedium, and make the audience’s nerves relax
HUMOR
is a literary device that refers to the use of figurative language to evoke a sensory experience or create a picture with words for a reader.
IMAGERY
can be seen as an image, sound, action, or other figures that has a symbolic significance, and contributes toward the development of a theme.
is a recurrent image, idea, or symbol that develops or explains a theme
MOTIF
utilizes tones of amusement, contempt, scorn, or indignation towards a flawed subject with the hope of creating awareness and subsequent change.
SATIRE
using this type of anxiety in literature is to make readers more concerned about the characters, and to form sympathetic association with them
SUSPENSE
- is something that stands for or suggests something else; it represents something beyond literal meaning
- can be a word, object, action, character, or concept that embodies and evokes a range of additional meaning an
SYMBOLISM
is likeness to the truth, such as the resemblance of a fictitious work to a real event, even if it is a far-fetched one.
VERISIMILITUDE
