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Allegory | when the characters or setting of a literary work represent general concepts, moral qualities, political or religious beliefs, real persons from history etc. |
Allusion | a brief reference, either explicit or indirect, to a person, place or event from real life/ history, or to other literature which may occur in any part of a literary work. |
Alliteration | the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words in close succession |
ambiguity | use of a word or expression or idea to signify or express two or more things diverse and even contradictory attitudes feelings at the same time |
anachronism | when an element of a story is placed where it doesn’t belong chronologically |
anagram | the letters of a word or phrase are transposed to form a new word |
analogy | an extended comparison based on a partial resemblance between two different things |
anaphora | is the repetition of a word or group of words at the beginning of successive sentences/clauses/lines |
epistrophe | occurs when each sentence/clause/line ends with the same word. |
apostrophe | addressing an absent or dead person, a thing, or an abstract idea as if it were alive or present |
archetype | any idea, character, action, object, institution, event or setting containing essential characteristics which are primitive, general, universal and recur frequently throughout literature, mythology and folklore |
assonance | the close repetition of identical-sounding vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables |
atmosphere | It may establish a feeling that it sets up readers' expectations as to what will happen in the text. |
bathos | It is false or forced emotion in literature that is humorous rather than touching. |
black comedy | humorous treatment of horrific, shocking and macabre subjects |
carpe diem | in Latin this means “seize the day.” |
chronology | the sequence in which events happen in a work of literature. This is sometimes called a timeline |
conceit | a complex metaphor which is usually part of a larger pattern of imagery that combines objects and concepts in unconventional ways. |
consonance | close repetition of identical consonant sounds which occur after different vowel sounds |
denotation | the thing to which the word specifically (the dictionary definition of a word); |
connotation | consist of the associated meanings it implies or suggests |
diction | refers to the selection of words, the vocabulary used in a text. |
didactic | any work of literature which teaches or instructs is called didactic. |
epithet | an adjective or phrase expressing some quality or attribute which is characteristic of a person or thing or typifies it |
euphony | the quality of having pleasant, easily pronounced or smooth-flowing sounds, free from harshness |
cacophony | he use of harsh-sounding words that are hard to pronounce in close succession which may result from a variety of causes |
figure (also called a trope) | any literary device which produces a certain effect in writing |
metaphor | n implicit comparison without using like or as |
simile | a comparison using like or as |
irony | saying the opposite of what one really means |
satire | using comedy as a “weapon” to criticise something |
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