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Literary Techniques

TermDefinition
Allegory A story which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
Allusion A reference to an event, person, place, work of literature that gives additional meaning to a text (enlarges its frame of reference)
Ambiguity The language and tone are deliberately unclear (they have more than one interpretation)
Analogy a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
Antithesis Contrasting ideas by balancing words of opposite meaning and ideas
Bildungsroman The development of a character from youth to maturity (coming of age)
Colloquial Using everyday speech and language in place of a literary or formal register
Connotation an idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Contradiction Stating or implying the opposite of what has been said or suggested
Diction Writer's word choice (vocabulary)
Genre A specific type or kind of literature (drama prose, poetry, etc.)
Hyperbole An exaggeration to emphasise/create an effect
Idyll/Idyllic The innocent/simple life in idealised rural setting.
Motif Reoccurring images or ideas that have a cumulative effect (not necessarily significant)
Omniscient narrator ALL KNOWING narrator (one who sees all)
Protagonist Main character in a work
Stream of consciousness The impression of random stream of thoughts
Style An author's distinctive writing traits
Subtext Ideas, feelings and thoughts within the narrative which are hinted at or suggested but not explicit.
Symbol Objects representing an idea or concept (rose = love)
Syntax Grammatical structure of words in a sentence (order of words)
Theme Central ideas/issues illustrated by the text (often abstract)
Oxymoron Two words with the opposite meaning are joined together.
Created by: jenglover
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