Literary Devices One
When words are used to suggest the opposite of the literal meaning.
What is Verbal Irony?
A group of lines in verse, roughly analogous in function to the paragraph in prose.
What is a stanza?
a story, or the action of a play, etc. starting without any introduction
What is a In medias res?
Occurs when the audience expects something to happen, but then something else happens instead.
What is Situational Irony?
An exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
A form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics.
What is Personification?
An author’s attitude toward his or her subject and audience.
What is Tone?
Authors choice of words
What is diction?
Two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
What is juxtaposition?
When we the audience know of Ophelia's death but Hamlet is innocent of the knowledge.
What is Dramatic Irony?
The writer or speaker refers either directly or indirectly to a person, event, or thing in history or to a work of art or literature.
What is Allusion?
Anything that appears on the surface to be one thing, yet represents something else and carries a hidden, deeper meaning.
What is Symbolism?
an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
What is a Soliloquy?
a usually recurring thematic element
What is a motif?
"A cool breeze carried carnival music and the aroma of popcorn my way. Just over the rise the lights blinked in a million colors." This appeal to the senses and the mental picture are this literary device.
What is a imagery?
When the first letters of words are the same as in: She shook the shears at the sheep.
What is alliteration?
A character who contrasts with another character - usually the protagonist— to highlight particular qualities of the other character.
What is Foil?
Excessive pride or ambition leads to the main character's downfall.
What is hubris?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is Simile?
A figure of speech that compares two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics.
What is Metaphor?
What is Narrator reliability?
The rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse.
What is meter?
The method is like first-person narration but instead of the character telling the story, the author places the reader inside the main character's head and makes the reader privy to all of the character's thoughts as they scroll through her consciousness.
What is a stream of consciousness?
rhetorical shift that marks the change of a thought or argument in a poem
What is shift or a Volta?
What is Chronology?