Literary Devices Flashcards
Antagonist
Agains the protagonist
Allusion
-Indirect reference to famous person/place/event/ literary work
Charichterization
-Way writer develops characters' personalities 4 methods: Direct comment character by narrator Physical appearance of character Characters thoughts/speech/actions Pertinent thoughts speech actions
Character foil
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Conflict
Problem within novel or written media
Man vs -nature/man/self
Imagery
Painted picture with words
Irony
Oxymoron
Diff in appearance and reality, expectation and reality, meaning and intention
Personification
Giving human characteristics to non living object or animal
Protagonist
Good person within novel
Rhetorical device
Used by writers to enhance and communicate more effectively
Rhetorical question
Used to make assertion not meant to have a reply
Rhythm
-Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
Brings out musical quality of lang emphasize ideas moods emotion
Stanza
A paragraph in a poem
Static charachter
Character who is unchanged through novel, faces same problems and situation as character who changed but had no affect on static character
Symbolism
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