Literary Devices
A literary device used to indicate the angle or perspective from which a story is told.
What is Point of View?
"Good folk, I have no coin;
To take were to purloin:
I have no copper in my purse,
I have no silver either,
And all my gold is on the furze
That shakes in windy weather
Above the rusty heather."
You have much gold upon your head,"
They answer'd all together:
Buy from us with a golden curl."
What is Christina Rosetti's Goblin Market?
The three parts of an analytical paragraph.
what are claim, evidence and analysis?
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
What is Allegory?
a literary device that implies comparison or contrast.
What is juxtaposition?
“He is young and strong; there are kisses for us all.” I lay quiet, looking out under my eyelashes in an agony of delightful anticipation. The fair girl advanced and bent over me till I could feel the movement of her breath upon me. Sweet it was in one sense, honey-sweet, and sent the same tingling through the nerves as her voice, but with a bitter underlying the sweet, a bitter offensiveness, as one smells in blood."
What is Bram Stoker's Dracula?
An idea about the world, expressed by a literary text, of general importance to people.
What is a literary theme?
A content and a methodology; "self-consciously engaged with the act of (re)interpretation, (re)discovery and (re)vision concerning the Victorians.”
What is neo-Victorian?
an important stylistic device that is commonly found in plays, movies, theaters, and sometimes in poetry. Storytellers use this as a useful plot device for creating situations in which the audience knows more about the situations, the causes of conflicts, and their resolutions before the leading characters or actors.
What is Dramatic Irony?
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own...
What is H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds?
This follows all instances of evidence in academic writing.
What is a citation?
a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
OR
wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly
What is Satire?
A figure of speech and literary device that creates heightened effect through deliberate exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
“Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; a disease that I regretted the more because I had hitherto enjoyed most excellent health, and had always boasted of the firmness of my nerves”
What is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
The heart of the literary essay.
This mode and genre "makes use of typical gothic themes like ‘death’ and ‘degeneration,’ but then maps these onto a story about imperial conquest."
What is the The Imperial Gothic?
A literary device that attributes human qualities and emotions to inanimate objects of nature.
What is pathetic fallacy?
Once there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper teeth—how was he, then, to grasp the key?
What is Fraz Kafka's Metamorphosis?
The first step in preparing to write an analytical paragraph?
What is close reading?
A legendary or a traditional story that usually concerns an event or a hero, with or without using factual or real explanations.
What is Myth?