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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill
Literary Devices
1. Cacophony - harsh, clashing sound by words that are clipped, explosive delivery, or words containing a number of plosive delivery of consonants as B, D, G, K, P, T.
2. Catalogue - an inventory to emphasize quantity or inclusiveness.
3. Character - vehicle that moves the story ahead.
4. Climax - point where the conflict of the story begins to reach a turning point and resolves.
5. Conceit - figure of speech comparing two dissimilar things.
6. Conflict - struggle between two opposing forces, and is the basis of the plot.
7. Connotation - impressions or images carried by a word and opposite to the word's literal meaning.
8. Consonance - close repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after different vowel sounds.
9. Convention - accepted way of doing things.
10. Denotation - literal meaning of a word without associations or overtones.
11. Denouement - final outcome of the plot in drama where the conflicts are solved.
12. Diction - word choice.
13. Enjambment - carrying of sense and grammar in a poem at the last of one line, stanza and into the next.
14. Epigram - witty pointed saying. Also, a short poem compressing meaning and expression like an inscription.
15. Epigraph - motto or quotation at the beginning of a book, play, chapter or poem. It also shows source for the title of a work and gives the reader an insight into the work.
16. Epitaph - inscription on tombstone or monument in memory. Also, a brief literary piece like a summary of a dead person.
17.Euphony - succession of sweet melodious sounds, smoothly flowing works as poetry or prose.
18. Exposition - background information at the beginning of a story. In a novel, usually the first chapter.
19. Fable - a brief tale told to illustrate a moral.
20. Falling action - events that lead to a resolution after the climax.
21. Foil - character providing striking contrast to another character.
22. Hyperbole - an exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effect.
23. Literal - word for word interpretation for what is written or said.
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