Literary Devices
Symbolism
What is the idea that things represent other things?
Rivalry
What is the action, position, or relation of a rival or rivals; competition?
Lance
What is to open or pierce?
A posed question that does not have an answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
The branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay (opposed to fiction and distinguished from poetry and drama).
What is nonfiction?
Personification
What is a literary device that uses the non-literal use of language to convey concepts in a relatable way?
Jealousy
What is resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, etc., or against another's success or advantage itself?
Quarrelsome
What is argumentative?
Something repeated using the exact same words.
What is repetition?
The branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay (opposed to fiction and distinguished from poetry and drama).
What is fiction?
Foreshadowing
What is a narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted?
Animosity
What is a feeling of strong dislike, ill will, or enmity that tends to display itself in action?
Invaluable
What is priceless?
A device used in a persuasive argument that employs an emotional appeal.
What is pathos?
In the most general terms, this type of literature can be defined as writing that employs dark and picturesque scenery, startling and melodramatic narrative devices, and an overall atmosphere of exoticism, mystery, fear, and dread.
Gothic Literature
Metaphor
What is a comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated?
Vengeful
What is something that is characterized by showing a vindictive spirit?
Capacity
What is something that is characterized by a vindictive spirit?
A device used for a persuasive argument that uses a logical appeal.
What is logos?
An idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures.
What is transcendentalism?
Allusion
What is a reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar?
Camaderie
What is a spirit of trust and goodwill among people closely associated in an activity or endeavor?
Fortitude
What is a something that means it is characterized by or showing a vindictive spirit?
The same idea is repeated but uses different wording.
What is restatement?
This is a global movement in society and culture that from the early decades of the twentieth century sought a new alignment with the experience and values of modern industrial life.
What is Modernism?