Literary Devices
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| Speaker | individual or collective voice of text | |
| Occasion | event or catalyst causing writing of the text to occur | |
| Audience | group of readers to whom text is addressed | |
| Purpose | reason behind the text | |
| Subject | general topic/main idea of the text | |
| Tone | attitude of the author | |
| Allegory | a work in which the characters and events are to be understood as representing other things and symbolically expressing a deeper, often spiritual, moral, or political meaning | |
| Allusion | a reference that is made indirectly, subtly suggested, or implied | |
| Ambiguity | a situation in which something can be understood in more than one way and it is not clear which meaning is intended | |
| Anadiplosis | the rhetorical repetition of the last word or words of one phrase or sentence at the beginning of the next | |
| Analogy | a comparison between two things that are similar in some respects, often used to help explain something or make it easier to understand | |
| Anaphora | the use of the same word of phrase at the beginning of several successive clauses, sentences, lines or verses, usually for emphasis or rhetorical effect | |
| Antecedent | the first part of a conditional proposition, which states the condition and is the p component in a proposition phrased “if p then q” | |
| Antistrophe | the second type of metrical form in a poem that alternates two contrasting metrical forms | |
| Apostrophe | the punctuation mark used to show where letters are omitted from a word, to mark the possessive, and sometimes to form the plural of numbers, letters, and symbols | |
| Archetype | something that served as the model or pattern for other things of the same type | |
| Assonance | the similarity of two or more vowel sounds or the repetition of two or more consonant sounds, especially in words that are close together in a poem | |
| Asyndeton | the leaving out of conjunctions in sentence constructions in which they would usually be used | |
| Atmosphere | a prevailing emotional tone or attitude, especially one associated with a specific place or time | |
| Cacophony | the use of harsh unpleasant sounds in language, for literary effect | |
| Caesura | a pause in a line of poetry, often near the middle of the line | |
| Caricature | a drawing, description, or performance that exaggerates somebody’s or something’s characteristics | |
| Clause | a group of words consisting of a subject and its predicate | |
| Colloquial | appropriate to, used in, or characteristic of spoken language or of writing this used to create the effect of conversation | |
| Connotation | the implying or suggesting of an additional meaning for a word or phrase apart from the explicit meaning | |
| Denotation | the most specific or literal meaning of a word, as opposed to its figurative senses or connotations | |
| Diction | the choice of words to fit their context | |
| Didactic | containing a political or moral message | |
| Epithet | an abusive insulting word or phrase | |
| Ethos | the fudnanmental and distinctive character of a group typically expressed in attitudes, habits, and beliefs | |
| Euphemism | a word or phrase used in place of a term that might be considered too direct, harsh, unpleasant, or offensive | |
| Genre | one of the categroeis that artistic wroks of all kinds can be divied into on the basis of form, style, or subject matter | |
| Homily | a sermon of other piece of writingo n a moral or religious topic | |
| Hyperbole | deliberate and obvious exxageration used for effect | |
| Imagery | the figurative language, especially metaphors and similes, used in poertry, plays, and other literary works | |
| Inference | a conclusion drawn from evidence or reasoning | |
| Invective | using abusive language | |
| Litotes | a deliberate understatement | |
| Metaphor | the application of a word or phrase to somebody or something that is not meant literally but to make a comparison | |
| Metonymy | a figure of speech in which an attribute of something is used to stand for the thing itself | |
| Mood | a state of mind that somebody experiences at a particular time | |
| Narrative | the story or account of a sequence of events in the order in which they happened | |
| Onomatopoeia | the formation or use of words that imitate the sound associated with the thing or action in question | |
| Paradox | a statement, proposition, or situation that seems to be absurd or contradictory | |
| Parody | a piece of writing or music that deliberately copies another work in a comic way | |
| Pathos | the quality in something that makes people feel pity or sadness | |
| Pedantic | twoo concerned with what are thought to be correct rules and details | |
| Persona | a character in a literary work | |
| Personification | the attribution of human qualities to objects | |
| Pleonasm | the use of more words than are necessary to express a meaning | |
| Polysyndeton | the use of multiple conjunctions or coordinate clauses close in succession | |
| Pun | a humorous use of words that involves a word or phrase that has more than one possible meaning | |
| Prose | a writing or speech in its normal continuous form | |
| Repetition | . an act of doing something again | |
| Rhetoric | speech or writing that communicates its point persuasively | |
| Satire | the use of wit, especially irony, sarcasm | |
| Semantics | the study of how meaning in language is created by the use and interrelationships of words, phrases, and sentences | |
| Solipsism | the belief that the only thing somebody can be sure of is that he or she exists | |
| Syllogism | a formal deductive argument made up of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion | |
| Synecdoche | . a figure of speech in which the word of something is used to mean the whole | |
| Syntax | . the ordering of and relationship between the words and other structural elements in phrases and sentences | |
| Synthesis | a new unified whole resulting from the combination of different ideas, influences or objects | |
| Theme | a subject of a discourse, discussion, piece of writing, or artistic composition | |
| Thesis | a proposition advanced as an argument | |
| Tone | a sound with a particular quality | |
| Transition | a process or period in which something undergoes a change and passes from one state, stage, form, or activity to another | |
| Understatement | a statement that undrepresents something | |
| Verisimilitude | . the appearance of being true or real | |
| Wit | speech or writing that shows an apt, clever, and often humorous association of words | |
| Zeugma | a figure of speech in which an adjective or verb is used with two nouns but is appropriate to only one of them or has a different sense with each. |
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