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LITERARY DEVICES Flashcards

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What are the TWO (2) SUBTYPES of LITERARY DEVICES?

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1) LITERARY TECHNIQUES
2) LITERARY ELEMENTS

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These are any specific ASPECT of LITERATURE or a particular work, which we can RECOGNIZE, IDENTIFY, INTERPRET and/or ANALYZE.

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LITERARY DEVICES

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  • These are SPECIFIC, DELIBERATE CONSTRUCTIONS of language to convey meaning.
  • SINGLE WORD or PHRASE, or group of words or phrases
  • NOT PRESENT in every text.
  • not only artistic but for greater understanding and appreciation.
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LITERARY TECHNIQUES

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Literary Techniques

Reflects repetition in two or more
nearby words of initial consonant
sounds.

)improving pronunciation
)attention-grabbing
)memorable
)melody

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ALLITERATION

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Literary Techniques

ATTRIBUTION of human characteristic or behaviors to an animal, object, or a god.

  • create vivid images
  • universality
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ANTHROPOMORPHISM

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Literary Techniques

  • Intended to communicate
    philosophical ideas

-spoken lines by characters in a
story
+ pause in their third-person
description
+ give different POV
+ allow characters to engage in
conflict

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DIALOGUE

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  • The audience knows more than
    the characters
    1_readers are invested
    2_sustain and excite the readers
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DRAMATIC IRONY

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Literary Techniques

  • Interrupts a story to explain something, to provide important background information.
  • What the audiences needs to know to be able to fully understand the story.

*Description of setting
(when and/or where
the story takes place)
*Flashback
*Narration
*Secondary sources
*Characters

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EXPOSITION

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Literary Techniques

  • use of words in a way that deviates from conventional order to convey a complicated meaning
    • helps literature to be more
      engaging and amusing
    • simplify complex ideas
  • simile
  • metaphor
  • personification
  • onomatopoeia
  • oxymoron
  • irony
  • allusion
  • hyperbole
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

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Literary Techniques

  • To give a hint to readers something that is to follow or appear later in a story.
  • Obvious; sometimes not

+ heighten readers anticipation
+ creates suspense

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FORESHADOWING

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Literary Techniques

Refers to the use of symbols to
communicate an idea

  • connect with readers and
    allows active participation
  • evoke emotion, create a
    sensory experience
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SYMBOLISM

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Literary Techniques

A speaker speaks something contradictory to what he intends to say
- develops funny and dramatic situations
- provoking readers into analyzing
- Sarcasm = tone

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VERBAL IRONY

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Literary Techniques

  • uses vivid description that
    appeals to a readers’ senses to
    create an image or idea in their
    head
    + improve a reader’s experience
  • Visual
  • Auditory
  • Gustatory
  • Tactile
  • Olfactory
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IMAGERY

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Literary Techniques

  • Likeness to the truth
  • Idea that literature should
    somehow be true to reality
  • relate it to real life
  • “Suspension of disbelief”
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VERSIMILITUDE

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Literary Techniques

  • Small impressionistic scene
  • Not more the 1000 words
  • No beginning, middle and end
  • give you a glimpse of the story to come
  • put the reader in a certain mood
  • allows the author to convey a strong impression or observation about an idea, a setting, a character, a moment,
    and/or an object
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VIGNETTE

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  • HARACTERISTICS of a WHOLE TEXT.
  • They are not “used,” per se, by authors; we derive what they are from reading the text.
  • Most literary elements can be derived from any and all texts.
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LITERARY ELEMENTS

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Literary Elements

  • Refers to the time, place, and
    environment in which narrative
    events unfold
  • Directly imparted to the reader
    or implied
  • Backdrop to everything that
    happens in a story

+ helps establish the mood and/or tone
+ provides context for other story
elements
+ enhances individual scenes within a
story’s plot

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SETTING

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Literary Elements

  • The writer’s attitude toward the
    subject matter
  • Word choice, figurative language, punctuation, and even
    sentence structure
  • Reader not only understands the words as they are presented in a work but also their meanings
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TONE

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Literary Elements

  • Indicate the angle or
    perspective from which a story
    is told
  • Refers to the “eyes”
  • Shifting the viewpoint gives a
    different perspective and version
    of the story.
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NARARATIVE PERSPECTIVE OR POINT-OF-VIEW

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Literary Elements
What are the 3 types of POV’S?

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  • FIRST PERSON PROTAGONIST
    (person telling the story is also the main character; “I” POV - POV is limited)
  • THIRD PERSON LIMITED
    (follows around one character primarily, has access to
    his/her thoughts.)
  • THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT
    (Third person omniscient
    has access to multiple character’s thoughts and actions.)
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Literary Elements

It refers to how the author describes his/her characters. highlight and explain the details of a character.

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CHARACTERIZATION

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Literary Elements

3 pairs of CHARACTERIZATIONS

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  • PROTA AND ANTA
  • STATIC AND DYNAMIC
  • ROUND AND FLAT
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Literary Elements

  • central, deeper meaning of a
    written work
  • allows the author to present and reveal all aspects of human nature and the human condition
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THEME

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Literary Elements

What does “denoue” mean?

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TO UNTIE

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Literary Elements

  • The resolution of the issue of a
    complicated plot in fiction
  • Final resolution or clarification
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RESOLUTION/DENOUEMENT

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Literary Elements
- a literary device characterized by a struggle between two opposing
forces.

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CONFLICT

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Literary Elements

What are the 5 kinds of conflict?

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1) MAN VS. MAN
2) MAN VS. HIMSELF
3) MAN VS. SOCIETY
4) MAN VS. TECHNOLOGY
5) MAN VS. MYTHICAL/PARANORMAL FORCE

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