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Pavlat 11 Honors #4

Stylistic Devices (General), Starred

QuestionAnswer
Charactonym A name that suggests the personality traits of a character
Dichotomy Separation into opposites or opposite groups
Duality The same as a dichotomy, but this term could also refer to a single thing with paradoxical elements of an internal division
Formal Structure The visible shape of a text, including poetry vs. prose, dialogue vs. exposition, punctuation, sentence length and variation, paragraph length and variation, stanzas, line breaks, chapters, etc.
Frame Story A story that contains another story
Embedded Story A story within another story; often, an extended flashback
Cosmic Irony When God/fate/the universe seems to deliberately manipulate events to bring characters to the brink of happiness, only to frustrate and mock them
Tenor The person, place, thing, or event (said or implied) that is being replaced by a metaphor
Vehicle The metaphorical term actually used by the author or poet
Motif A word, phrase, image, or idea repeated throughout a work or several works of literature
Narrative Omission When a narrator deliberately leaves out important facts or events
Unreliable Narrator A narrator whose account of a story cannot be trusted due to insanity, youth, dishonesty, or lack of intelligence
Homeric Simile An extended simile, lasting for several lines, in imitation of Homer’s writing
Syntax Word order
Litotes A form of understatement that states a fact or opinion indirectly, by negating its opposite
Created by: eric.pavlat
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