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Literary Devices Flashcards

1
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Orwell wrote Animal Farm as a political … for the Russian revolution.

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Allegory

meaning / message

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essence, serpent, zip, sweet

a hissing sound

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Sibilance

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as busy as a bee

having the same sound in the beginning of following words

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Alliteration

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Be damned if you do and be damned if you don’t.

repeating the same word at the beginning of neighboring clauses

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Anaphora

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Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Keep your mouth closed and your eyes open.

proposition contrasting with or reversing previously mentioned thing

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Antithesis

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5
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Oh Sally, why are you never picking up your phone?

directly adressing absent people or the reader

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Apostrophe

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Reduce, reuse, recycle. They dove, splashed, swam, floated.

listing without combination words

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Asyndaton

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When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Mirroring the first part of a sentence

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Chiasmus

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“fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese”

repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring words

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Assonance

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Words that imitate the sound they represent (e.g., “buzz,” “hiss”).

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Onomatopoeia

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reference to something well-known outside of the book

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Allusion

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Easy come, easy go

The use of similar grammatical structures to create rhythm and balance

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Parallelism

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A sudden realization or understanding of something significant (e.g., the moment of clarity for a character).

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Epiphany

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13
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bittersweet

A figure of speech that combines contradictory terms

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Oxymoron

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Substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive

“passed away” instead of “died”

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Euphemism

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15
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A reocurring element that has symbolic significance in the story

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motif

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16
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Direct characterisation

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“The patient boy and quiet girl were both well mannered and did not disobey their mother.”

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17
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Indirect characterisation

STEAL

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Speech
Thoughts
Effects on others (how do others feel & behave around them)
Actions
Looks

18
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From the softness of cashmere to the biting cold of a December night

What type of imagery?

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tactile imagery

19
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Whenever I smell the sweet aroma of buttery crust and spiced fruit

Type of imagery?

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olfactory imagery

20
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her teeth chattered and the leaves crunched under her feet

which type of imagery?

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auditory imagery

21
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the sinking sun shimmered on the water as the blue sky transformed into various shades of purple and pink

what type of imagery?

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visual imagery

22
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He has a heart of stone.

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figurative language (often includes metaphors or similes)

23
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My mouth nearly watered as I stared at the decadent chocolate mousse and imagined the sweet, creamy dessert rolling on my tongue

type of imagery?

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gustatory imagery

yum yum

24
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He enjoyed watching the palm trees swaying in the wind as rain drizzled from the sky.

Type of imagery?

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kinesthetic imagery

describes a movement

25
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She clenched her fists and then threw her hands in the air as he continued to yell at her.

type of imagery?

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organic imagery

conveys an internal feeling like nostalgia, love, hate etc

26
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**

name of second protagonist

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deuteragonsit

27
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side characters

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tertiary characters

28
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somebody who the protagonist trusts

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confidant

29
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Figurative language can include these 4 categories

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Metaphor, Simile, Personification, Hyperbole

30
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The 3 different types of irony

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Dramatic - audience knows smth the characters dont
Situational - ironic situations
Verbal - saying opposite of what is meant

31
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it involves analepsis and/or prolepsis

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anachrony (non-linear storytelling)

32
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new words for already existing words, e.g. “flex” instead of “brag”

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Neologism

33
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What is tone?

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The authors attitude towards something (not the characters’!)
Can be conveyed by descrition and word choice (diction)

34
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Offenbarung

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epiphany

35
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downfall of the hero

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tragic flaw

36
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Umgangssprache

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colloquial language

37
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dynamic VS static character

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dynamic changes
static stays the same

38
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Logos

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appeals to audience’s reasoning, building up logical arguments

39
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Ethos

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makes narrator/author seem more trustworthy/ like an authority

40
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Pathos

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appeals to emotions

41
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font style, size, and arrangement of text

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typography

42
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a part of something is used to represent the whole or vice versa

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Synecdoche (a specific type of metonymy)

43
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using the “crown” to represent the monarchy

using something to represent something closely related

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metonymy

not the same as symbolism, as symbolism represnets abstract ideas

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