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Literary Devices
Literary devices are techniques used by writers to enhance their storytelling, create deeper meaning, and evoke emotion in readers. They help make the language more vivid, persuasive, and expressive.
1. Alliteration - repetition of the same consonant sound. [She sells sea shells on a sea shore]
2. Allusion - reference made to famous person, place, event, literary work or work of art. [Romeo and Juliet]
3. Characterization - techniques used to create and develop a character.
4. Dialect - speech reflecting pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary according to a geographical area.
5. Figurative language - figures of speech.
6. Free verse - has no rhyme scheme or regular meter, also called blank verse.
7. Foreshadowing - hints dropped to prepare the reader about the upcoming event.
8. Imagery - words that appeal to the reader's senses.
9. Humor - quality of a literary work that makes the character/situation seem funny or amusing.
10. Irony - opposite words used to their usual meaning.
11. Onomatopoeia - words used to imitate sounds. [Hiss]
12. Point of view - perspective from which the story is narrated.
13. Satire - writing commenting humorously on human flaws, ideas, social customs or institution to change them.
14. Flashbacks - interruption of time to present something that occurs before the beginning of the story.
15. Style - way used by the writer of using language including factors such as word choice, sentence length, arrangement and complexity and figurative language and imagery.
16. Suspense - feeling of excitement, curiosity or expectation about what'll happen next.
17. Symbol - person, place or thing that represents something tangible and an abstract idea.
18. Allegory - characters stand for abstract concept, generally teaches a lesson by means of an interesting story.
19. Ambiguity - double or multiple meaning.
20. Analogy - comparison between 2 dissimilar things for clarifying the less familiar.
21. Antagonist - force or character opposing the protagonist.
22. Apostrophe - device used to call out an imaginary, dead or an absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction to begin a poem or to make a dramatic break in thought.
23. Assonance - repetition of vowel sounds at close intervals.
24. Ballad - narrative poems originally meant to be sung have dialogue and repetition.
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