Literary Devices Part 2

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Allusions

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a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another.

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Genres

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a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like: the genre of epic poetry; the genre of symphonic music.

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Sentence Structure

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the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences

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Figures of Speech

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An expression that uses language in a nonliteral way, such as a metaphor or synecdoche, or in a structured or unusual way, such as anaphora or chiasmus, or that employs sounds, such as alliteration or assonance, to achieve a rhetorical effect.

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Narrative Devices

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This term describes the tools of the story teller (also used in non fiction), such as ordering events so that they build to a climatic moment or withholding information until a crucial or appropriate moment when revealing it creates a desired effect.

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Rhetorical Modes

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A rhetorical mode is a strategy--a way or method of presenting a subject—through writing or speech. Some of the better known rhetorical modes are, for example, "argument" and "cause and effect."

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Irony

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the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning

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Stylistic Devices

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Rhetorical Devices. Such as Hyperbole, Anaphora, etc.

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Onomatopoeia

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the formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.