Saturday, 17 August 2019

TEST 2

LITERARY DEVICES
1. Adverb - 'he ran quickly', or 'he ran fast'.

2. Alliteration -"She sells, sea shells by the sea shore”

3. Allusion - My love for you is as passionate as Romeo's for Juliet

4. Ambivalence - this indicates more than one possible attitude is being displayed by the
writer towards a character, theme, or idea, etc. ex: "I want to change, but I don't want to.

5. Antagonist - Darth Vadar is the main antagonist of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars."

6. Antithesis - the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing"

7. Aphorism - a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a

moral principle ex: "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others" from
Animal Farm

8. Archaism - The use of obsolete or outmoded words. It is often used to lend an antiquated
or quaint feel to prose or verse ex: "O, Romeo, Romeo-wherefore art thou Rome? ...

9. Archetype - a universal symbol (ex: green = hope, rebirth, renewal)

10. Assonance -"Hear the mellow wedding bells

11. Cadence - The melodic rise and fall of patterns of speech, prose or verse. Ex. from "The
Raven" Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

12. Caesura - A pause near the middle of a line. Eg. Sing a song of sixpence, II a pocket full
of rye. ...

13. Chiasmus - Inversion in the second of two parallel phrases (ie. loving to live -- living to
love, Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country)

14. Clause - A sentence or sentence-like construction included within another sentence. Eg.
A nested clause, that is an idea within an idea, is a sophisticated way of expressing a
thought.

15. Climax - Frodo standing atop Mount Doom struggling with Golum about destroying the
room is the climax of "Lord of the Rings".

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16. Closure - The sense of resolution or completion at the end of a literary work. Eg. When
the death star is destroyed at the end of "Star Wars: A New Hope" the main threat was
destroyed.

17. Colloquialism - the use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. Not generally
acceptable for formal writing, colloquialisms give a work a conversational, familiar tone.
Colloquial expressions include local and regional aspect (ex: Catcher in the Rye) "Well
butter my buns and call me a biscuit"

18. Conceit - an extended metaphor- two unlike things are compared in several different
ways. Ex. Lady Gaga's song "pokerface"

19. Conflict - Harry Potter opposing Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter.

20. Conjuction - For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So

21. Connotation - all of the meanings, associations, or emotions a word suggests. The words
childish, childlike and youthful have the same denotative, but different connotative,
meanings. Childish and childlike have a negative connotation, as they refer to immature
behavior of a person. Whereas, youthful implies that a person is lively and energetic.