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In addition to considering the elements of a short story we need to understand the various literary devices that an author may use. These literary devices guide our interpretation and help us to better understand the story’s complexities and overall meaning.
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To find a particular term, use your browser's Find command. Note: Terms already in the Handbook of Rhetorical Devices have been deleted from this file. ... A work designed to ridicule a style, literary form, or subject matter either by treating the exalted in a trivial way or by discussing the trivial in exalted terms (that...
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Literary technique - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A literary technique or literary device is an identifiable rule of thumb, convention or structure that is employed in literature and storytelling. Literary techniques are important aspects of an a...
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Literary and Rhetorical Terms The Department of English, University of Victoria ... Virtual Salt A Glossary of Literary Terms from Robert Harris ... Virtual Salt Rhetorical Devices from R Harris.
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The list which follows is a pretty comprehensive list of the literary devices that we will be using in Honors English. For definitions and examples of these terms and many others, visit this website provided by another AP teacher, Carter Hammond.
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Click here for assignment due date ... ALLITERATION ; Also called head rhyme or initial rhyme, the repetition of the initial sounds (usually consonants) of stressed syllables in neighboring words ... The elements in a literary work used to evoke mental images, not only of the visual sense, but of sensation and emotion as well.
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