Literary Techniques Flashcards
What is foreshadowing
Use of hints or clues that suggests what will happen next.
Flashbacks / Flashforward
A narrative part that takes the story backward or forward in time.
What is a motif?
A repeated pattern, image, sound, word, or quote that comes again and again in the story.
Like a quote in fight club
Symbolism
Using an object or something to stand for an idea.
Like a bird as a symbol of piece, etc
Allusion
Referring another literary work.
Like in Gintama
Situation Irony
When what is expected to happen does not acually happens
Dramatic Irony
When the audience knows more the the character it self.
Like the relation ship in Kaguya Sama
Mirroring
When the author creates similarities or parallels in different elements or characters in the story.
Like n in death note. He was similar to L
Conflict
The disagreement, or problem that creates the need of change in a story.
Internal conflicts or external conflicts.
The conflict if Eren and the world and his mind and whether he should trust others or not
What is juxtaposition?
When you place different objects or characters next to each other to highlight the differences.
