LITERARY DEVICES Flashcards
What are the TWO (2) SUBTYPES of LITERARY DEVICES?
1) LITERARY TECHNIQUES
2) LITERARY ELEMENTS
These are any specific ASPECT of LITERATURE or a particular work, which we can RECOGNIZE, IDENTIFY, INTERPRET and/or ANALYZE.
LITERARY DEVICES
- These are SPECIFIC, DELIBERATE CONSTRUCTIONS of language to convey meaning.
- SINGLE WORD or PHRASE, or group of words or phrases
- NOT PRESENT in every text.
- not only artistic but for greater understanding and appreciation.
LITERARY TECHNIQUES
Literary Techniques
Reflects repetition in two or more
nearby words of initial consonant
sounds.
)improving pronunciation
)attention-grabbing
)memorable
)melody
ALLITERATION
Literary Techniques
ATTRIBUTION of human characteristic or behaviors to an animal, object, or a god.
- create vivid images
- universality
ANTHROPOMORPHISM
Literary Techniques
- Intended to communicate
philosophical ideas
-spoken lines by characters in a
story
+ pause in their third-person
description
+ give different POV
+ allow characters to engage in
conflict
DIALOGUE
- The audience knows more than
the characters
1_readers are invested
2_sustain and excite the readers
DRAMATIC IRONY
Literary Techniques
- Interrupts a story to explain something, to provide important background information.
- What the audiences needs to know to be able to fully understand the story.
*Description of setting
(when and/or where
the story takes place)
*Flashback
*Narration
*Secondary sources
*Characters
EXPOSITION
Literary Techniques
- use of words in a way that deviates from conventional order to convey a complicated meaning
- helps literature to be more
engaging and amusing - simplify complex ideas
- helps literature to be more
- simile
- metaphor
- personification
- onomatopoeia
- oxymoron
- irony
- allusion
- hyperbole
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Literary Techniques
- To give a hint to readers something that is to follow or appear later in a story.
- Obvious; sometimes not
+ heighten readers anticipation
+ creates suspense
FORESHADOWING
Literary Techniques
Refers to the use of symbols to
communicate an idea
- connect with readers and
allows active participation - evoke emotion, create a
sensory experience
SYMBOLISM
Literary Techniques
A speaker speaks something contradictory to what he intends to say
- develops funny and dramatic situations
- provoking readers into analyzing
- Sarcasm = tone
VERBAL IRONY
Literary Techniques
- uses vivid description that
appeals to a readers’ senses to
create an image or idea in their
head
+ improve a reader’s experience - Visual
- Auditory
- Gustatory
- Tactile
- Olfactory
IMAGERY
Literary Techniques
- Likeness to the truth
- Idea that literature should
somehow be true to reality - relate it to real life
- “Suspension of disbelief”
VERSIMILITUDE
Literary Techniques
- Small impressionistic scene
- Not more the 1000 words
- No beginning, middle and end
- give you a glimpse of the story to come
- put the reader in a certain mood
- allows the author to convey a strong impression or observation about an idea, a setting, a character, a moment,
and/or an object
VIGNETTE
- HARACTERISTICS of a WHOLE TEXT.
- They are not “used,” per se, by authors; we derive what they are from reading the text.
- Most literary elements can be derived from any and all texts.
LITERARY ELEMENTS
Literary Elements
- Refers to the time, place, and
environment in which narrative
events unfold - Directly imparted to the reader
or implied - Backdrop to everything that
happens in a story
+ helps establish the mood and/or tone
+ provides context for other story
elements
+ enhances individual scenes within a
story’s plot
SETTING
Literary Elements
- The writer’s attitude toward the
subject matter - Word choice, figurative language, punctuation, and even
sentence structure - Reader not only understands the words as they are presented in a work but also their meanings
TONE
Literary Elements
- Indicate the angle or
perspective from which a story
is told - Refers to the “eyes”
- Shifting the viewpoint gives a
different perspective and version
of the story.
NARARATIVE PERSPECTIVE OR POINT-OF-VIEW
Literary Elements
What are the 3 types of POV’S?
- FIRST PERSON PROTAGONIST
(person telling the story is also the main character; “I” POV - POV is limited) - THIRD PERSON LIMITED
(follows around one character primarily, has access to
his/her thoughts.) - THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT
(Third person omniscient
has access to multiple character’s thoughts and actions.)
Literary Elements
It refers to how the author describes his/her characters. highlight and explain the details of a character.
CHARACTERIZATION
Literary Elements
3 pairs of CHARACTERIZATIONS
- PROTA AND ANTA
- STATIC AND DYNAMIC
- ROUND AND FLAT
Literary Elements
- central, deeper meaning of a
written work - allows the author to present and reveal all aspects of human nature and the human condition
THEME
Literary Elements
What does “denoue” mean?
TO UNTIE
