Terms
Allusion
Reference to a person, place or event that is well known in history, literature, religion, etc.
Paradox
An anomalous juxtaposition of incongruous ideas for the sake of striking exposition or unexpected insight; A statement that contradicts itself, or that must be both true and untrue at the same time.
Irony Definition
A literary device in which contradictory statements or situations reveal a reality that is different from what appears to be true. There are many forms of irony featured in literature.
Fire: a raging fire can symbolize anger, punishment and destruction. Ironically, it can also signify rebirth--as in the myth of the phoenix.
Symbol
Crispy Chloe Claps
Alliteration
Foreshadow
A hint that the author gives about an event that will happen later.
Satire
A genre that uses humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize the weaknesses or bad qualities of a person, government, society, etc. Commonly used in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Verbal
Verbal irony: Writer/Speaker says one thing, but means something completely different/opposite
She is as fierce as a lion.
My love is like a red, red rose.
Simile
Yes, Chloe. Yes, Rachel. Yes to everyone who every asked.
Anaphora
Hyperbole
An exaggerated statement used to add emphasis
Litotes
an ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary
Situational
Situational irony: An incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead
Could this question be anymore obvious?
Rhetorical Question
Chloe went, Chloe ate, Chloe believed.
Asyndenton
Metaphor
A common figure of speech that explicitly compares two things usually considered different without using “like” or “as.”
Anadipolis
a device in which the last word or phrase of one clause, sentence, or line is repeated at the beginning of the next
Dramatic
Dramatic irony: The audience/reader knows something the characters do not
“When the young Dawn with fingertips of rose lit up the world” - Homer, The Odyssey
Personification
"Let Chloe never negotiate out of fear, but let Chloe never fear to negotiate"
Chiasmus
Motif
A literary technique that consists of a repeated element that has symbolic significance to a literary work. It can be a recurring image, repeated word, phrase, or topic, a recurring situation or action, a sound or smell, a temperature, even a color.
Metonymy
to substitute the name of one object for another object closely associated with it
Which one?
The dog got chased by the cat.
Situational
The opening of Book 1, Chapter 3 of ToTC:
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! [...] My friend is dead, my neighbour is dead, my love, the darling of my soul, is dead; it is the inexorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality, and which I shall carry in mine to my life’s end. In any of the burial-places of this city through which I pass, is there a sleeper more inscrutable than its busy inhabitants are, in their innermost personality, to me, or than I am to them?” - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Authorial Intrusion
“All's fair in love and war”
Juxtaposition