Created by veronika.salla
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The repetition of a consonant sound in the first syllable of a series of words: "Peper picked pickled peppers"
Either when characters or plot elements represent ideas; or when one thing is a metaphor of another completely unrelated to it
Makes reference to a place or person or thing, either directly or by implication; it is often up to the reader to make the connection explicitly.
Describing an inanimate or non-human object by reference to human characteristics
The repetition of a vowel sound to create internal rhymes either within or between words or sentences: "proud round cloud"
The omission of conjunctions from a series of clauses: "without looking, without making a sound, without talking"
A pause on a line of poetry
An extended metaphor, governing the logic of an entire passage or work: "This flea is you and I (...)" -- often surprising/shocking
Carry-on lines; the continuation of a syntactic unit over a line break, signified by the absence of punctuation
The opposite of enjambment; the indication of syntactic closure at the end of a line by punctuation
Exaggeration
To evoke a visual experience for the reader
Simple repeating of words
Describing something by asserting that it is similar in some way to something else, unconnected to it
When a thing is not called by its own name, but rather by the name of something associated with it
The combination of contradictory temrs. Linked to paradox
Juxtaposition of contradictory terms designated to create insight from the contrast
Representing a thing through a symbol
A flashback
An anti-climax
A plot that resolves difficult issues in one immediate way (sometimes unrealistically)
A trope when a character comes to a sudden realization accompanied by strong emotions, often transcendral. (In modernism, these are often bathetic)
A stroy which frames another story; a-story-within-a-story
When a plot begins in the middle of the action, presupposing a history leading up to these events
Treatment of an inanimate object as if it had human emotions (especially with the weather)
Emotional appeal
Flasforward
Where the shortcomings of people or a society are held up to ridicule (using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule)
The narrative mode that attempts to capture a subject's internal thought process
Imitation
Emotional purging: that experience of horror or pleasure gained through literature
The 'fall' in drama, often the tragic descent of the character or their fortunes
Self-knowledge: the realization of the character as to their own issues or tragic flaw. (Related to epiphany)
Tragic flaw: a personal error in a protagonist’s personality that brings about his tragic downfall in a tragedy.
Incongrunity between literal and implied meaning
When the reader has information the character does not
Placing two things close to one another
A work or character which imitates and mocks another