Literary Devices Flashcards by martha pryer

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Adjective

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Describes a noun

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Add verb

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Describes verbs ‘Ly’

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Connotation

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Things associated with it

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Imperative

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Do this do that #StrongVerbs

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Lexical field

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Different words used under same topic

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Abstract noun

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Love, hate, freedom #NoformCan’tTouchThem

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Concrete noun

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Something real that you can touch

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Proper noun

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Name of the person or place

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Pronoun

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He / she/ we / they

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Dynamic verb

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Moving verbs

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Stative verb

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Staying verb just being

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Alliteration

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Repetition of sounds

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Cacophonic

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Sounding unpleasant

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Consonance

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Repetition of constant sounds

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Euphonic

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Dreamy sounds

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Fricative

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F and V sounds

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Onomatopoeia

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Crash bang screech

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Plosive

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P and B and C and T sounds

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Sibilance

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S and soft C sounds

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Ballad

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Narrating a story in short stanzas

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Caesura

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A pause near the middle of a line

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Couplet

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A pair of successive lines of verse typically rhyming

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Wnd stopped

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Having a pause at the end of each line

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Enjambment

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Continuation of a sentence without a pause be on the end of the line

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Free verse

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Does not rhyme to have a regular rhythm

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Internal verse

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Rhyme that occurs within a single line of a verse

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Lyric

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Expressing the writers emotion

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Ode

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Lyric poem

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Quatrain

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A stanza of 4 lines,alternative rhyme

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Refrain

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Phrase or line repeated at intervals throughout the poem

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Sonnet

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14 lines

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Volta

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Rhetorically shift or dynamic change in thought or emotion

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Characterisation

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The act of building acharacter

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Direct speech

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Speech from one character to another was “

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Emotive

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Language which generate an emotion or feeling

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Euphemism

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Saying something which means something else

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For grounding

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Something at the start of the sentence

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Hyper bole

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Exaggerated language

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Irony

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Words are used a different meaning behind them

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Juxtaposition

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Two contrasting ideas or themes

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Litotes

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Understatement

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A syndetic listing

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Words are listed with no conjunctions

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Syndetic listing

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Words are listed with commas between them

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Narrative voice

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Voice of the narrator

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Oxymoron

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Two contrasting words next to each other

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Paradox

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Two things that happen but shouldn’t go inside

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Parallelism

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Repeating of the same grammatical structure

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Persona

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First person voice which isn’t voice of author

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Repetition

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geographical setting location time

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Simple sentence type

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Only has one close and one verb

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Compound sentence type

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To close is connected by conjunction

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Minor sentence type

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No verb

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Subtext

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What is implied

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Syntax

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Structure a sentence order of words

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Theme

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Topic explored in text

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Tone

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The way some think you said

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Metaphor

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Something described as being something else

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Pathetic fallacy

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Whether or nature reflects emotion

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Personification

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When an object is humanised

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Simile

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Like is used

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Symbol

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Object is standing for something else