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Literary Devices
English
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| allegory | a work in which the characters and events are to be understood as representing a meaning that lies outside the work itself |
| allusion | a reference (explicit or implicit) to something in history or another work of literature |
| connotation | as association that comes along with a particular word |
| denotation | the exact meaning of a word, without the feelings or suggestions that the word may imply |
| diction | an author's choice of words |
| figurative language | a type of language that varies from the norms of literal language, in which words mean exactly what they say |
| foreshadowing | when future events in a story are suggested but he author before they happen |
| genre | a type of literature defined by certain shared conventions |
| hyperbole | an extravagant exaggeration or overstatement |
| image | language that evokes at least one one of the five senses |
| irony | an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant |
| metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things using the ver "to be" and not using "like" or "as" |
| mood | the emotional response that a work of literature generates in a reader |
| narrator | one who tells a story, the speaker or the "voice" of an oral written work |
| oxymoron | a contradiction in terms |
| personification | a figure of speech where animals, ideas or inorganic objects are given human characteristics |
| point of view | a way the events of a story are conveyed to the reader, it is the "vantage point" from which the narrative is passed from author to the reader |
| repitition | the duplication, either exact or approximate of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern |
| rhyme | close similarity or identity of sound between accented syllables occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines of verse |
| simile | a figure of speech that compares two unalike objects or ideas by connecting them with "like" or "as" |
| symbol | a figure of speech in which something ( object, person, situation, or action) means more that what it is |
| tone | the author's attitude toward his/her subject matter |
| theme | a common thread or repeated idea that is incorporated throughout a literary work |
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