Lit devices Flashcards
A literary device
Is any specific aspect of literature, or a particular work, which we can recognize, identify, interpret and or analyze. Both literary elements and literary techniques.
Lit techniques
An authors use of lit tech usually occurs with a single word or phrase, or group of words or phrases at one single point in a text.
Alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds within close proximity, usually in consecutive words within the same sentence or line
Anthropomorphism
Where animals or inanimate objects are portrayed in a story as people, such as by walking, talking, or has body parts and a face.
Creative license
Exaggeration or alteration of objective facts or reality for the purpose of enhancing meaning in fictional context
Blank verse
Non rhyming poetry. Usually written in iambic pentameter
Dialogue
Where characters speak to one another; may often be used to substitute for exposition.
Dramatic irony
Where the audience or reader is aware of something important, of which the characters in the story are not aware
Exposition
Where an author interrupts a story to explain something, (background info)
Figurative language
Intended meaning differs from actual meaning
Foreshadowing
Future events or perhaps the outcome are suggested by the author before it happened
Hyperbole
A description which exaggerates
Iambic pentameter
Poetry written with each line containing ten syllables in five repetitions of a two syllable pattern
Imagery
Language which describes something in detail, using words to substitute for and create sensory stimulation, including visual imagery and sound.
Irony
Where an event occurs which is unexpected and which is in absurd or mocking opposition.
Metaphor
Direct relationship where one thing or idea substitutes for another
Onomatopoeia
Where sounds are spelled
Oxymoron
A contradiction in terms
Paradox
Where a situation is created which cannot possibly exist
Parallelism
Use of similar or identical language, structures, events, or ideas
Personification
Where Inanimate objects or abstract concepts are seemingly endowed with human self awareness
Personification lll
Abstract concept, such as a particular human behavior or force of nature
Repetition
Where a specific word phase or structure is repeated
