Literary Devices Flashcards

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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
Continuation of a sentence without a pause be on the end of the line
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Free verse
Does not rhyme to have a regular rhythm
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Internal verse
Rhyme that occurs within a single line of a verse
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Lyric
Expressing the writers emotion
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Ode
Lyric poem
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Quatrain
A stanza of 4 lines,alternative rhyme
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Refrain
Phrase or line repeated at intervals throughout the poem
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Sonnet
14 lines
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Volta
Rhetorically shift or dynamic change in thought or emotion
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Characterisation
The act of building acharacter
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Direct speech
Speech from one character to another was "
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Emotive
Language which generate an emotion or feeling
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Euphemism
Saying something which means something else
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For grounding
Something at the start of the sentence
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Hyper bole
Exaggerated language
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Irony
Words are used a different meaning behind them
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Juxtaposition
Two contrasting ideas or themes
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Litotes
Understatement
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A syndetic listing
Words are listed with no conjunctions
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Syndetic listing
Words are listed with commas between them
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Narrative voice
Voice of the narrator
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Oxymoron
Two contrasting words next to each other
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Paradox
Two things that happen but shouldn't go inside
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Parallelism
Repeating of the same grammatical structure
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Persona
First person voice which isn't voice of author
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Repetition
geographical setting location time
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Simple sentence type
Only has one close and one verb
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Compound sentence type
To close is connected by conjunction
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Minor sentence type
No verb
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Subtext
What is implied
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Syntax
Structure a sentence order of words
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Theme
Topic explored in text
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Tone
The way some think you said
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Metaphor
Something described as being something else
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Pathetic fallacy
Whether or nature reflects emotion
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Personification
When an object is humanised
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Simile
Like is used
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Symbol
Object is standing for something else