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Literary Devices Flashcards

1
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Tone

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Attitude of the narrarator or speaker

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Atmosphere

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The way the author uses setting, objects, or internal thoughts of characters to create emotion, mood, or experience for the reader

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Mood

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The general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader

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4
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Diction

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Word choice

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5
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Metaphor

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A direct comparison of an object to something else

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Similie

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Indirect comaparison of an object to something else

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Personification

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Human-like description of a non-human object

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Visual imagery

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Descriptive language that appeals to the sense of sight

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Dramatic irony

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Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play

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10
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Juxstaposition

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Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

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Modality

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Level of certainty of language

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12
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Allusion

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A reference to something outside of the text

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13
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Pathetic Fallacy

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The attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature

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14
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Alliteration

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Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

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15
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Cacophony

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Harsh sounds

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16
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Onomatopoeia

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A word that imitates the sound it represents

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17
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Repetition

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Words/phrases that can be repeated

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Enjambment

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A run-on of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next

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19
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Caesura

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A pause or sudden break in a line of poetry

20
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Hyperbole

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An exaggeration

21
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Paradox

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A statement that seems contradictory but actually contains a hidden truth

22
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Oxymoron

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A combination of contradictory terms

22
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Antithesis

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A balancing of two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses

23
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Syntax

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An arrangement of words in phrases and sentences

24
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Rhetorical Question

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A question asked merely for effect with no answeres expected

25
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Internal monologue

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Private sensations, thoughts, and emotions of a character

25
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Foil character

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A character who is used as a contrast to another character

26
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Characterisation

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Actions, dialogue, and narrative description that reveals a sense of a character’s personality to the reader

27
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Imperative language

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An authoritative command

28
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Voice

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Perspective of the narrator or speaker

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Auditory imagery

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Details that appeal to the sense of sound

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Olfactory imagery

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Descriptive language that appeals to the sense of smell

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Kinesthetic imagery

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Language that creates a sense of motion

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Symbol

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Something that stands for an abstract idea

33
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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

34
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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds

35
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Sibilance

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Hissing sounds represented by s, z, sh

36
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Rhyme

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Repetition of sounds at the end of words

37
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Anaphora

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The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses

38
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Listing

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List of words/phrases

39
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Endstop

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The poetic line ends with a punctuation mark

40
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Stanza length

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Legnth of a stanza

41
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Line break

A

End of line of poetry

42
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Verbal irony

A

Saying one thing but meaning another

43
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Asyndeton

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Leaving out conjuctions between words, phrases, clauses

44
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Polsysyndeton

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Deliberate use of many conjuctions

45
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Dramatic monologue

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A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener

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