IB English Literary Analysis: Stylistic Features

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