Literary Devices Flashcards
Doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation.
Ambiguity
Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time.
Anachronism
A true story that is generally amusing, thought-provoking, strange, humorous etc.
Anecdote
Contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, phrases or clauses.
Antithesis
The prevailing mood or feeling of a literary work.
Atmosphere
The act or process of forming reasons and of drawing conclusions and applying them to a case in discussion. It is also known as a debate.
Argumentation
The particular group of readers or viewers that the writer is addressing.
Audience
Constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance. Sentences can be unbalanced to serve a special effect as well.
Balance
A preference or tendency towards a particular perspective, idea or result, usually when it impairs the ability to be objective or impartial.
Bias
A final event or conclusion, usually an unfortunate one.
Catastrophe
Two events that are related when one event makes the other occur.
Cause and Effect
An expression not used in formal speech, writing or paralinguistics.
Colloquialism
The act of conceding or yielding, as a right, a privilege, or a point or fact in an argument.
Concession
The suggestive or associative significance of an expression, additional to the explicit literal meaning; implication.
Connotation
The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning.
Connotation/Denotation
The specific meaning of, or the object or objects designated by, a word as distinct from what it suggests: distinguished from connotation.
Denotation
The effect, result, or outcome of something occurring earlier.
Consequences