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Mind Map by miss.bakare, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by miss.bakare
over 11 years ago
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English Literary Devices
- Allegory - word that has a second moral meaning
- Alliteration - Repetition of initial constant sound
- Allusion - refers to external event that
audience/reader would know about (e.g
American Dream)
- Blank Verse - iambic
pentameter that doesn't rhyme
- Caesura - a pause (, or ;) in the middle of a line
- Cacophony - harsh sound
- Euphony - pleasant sound
- Imagery
- Aural
- Gaustatory
- Tactile
- Olfactory
- Organic
- Visual
- Aural
- Irony - dramatic/ self-contradictory aspect
- Metaphor - comparison without
like/as saying it is something
- Onomatopoeia - sounds like the word it is
- Paradox - two things that shouldn't exist
at one time, but do (e.g bittersweet)
- Personification - "Things"
given a human
characteristic
- Phonetic Intensive - When the sound of a
word emphasises its meaning
- Simile - comparison using 'like' or 'as'
- Tone - writer's attitude
- Anaphora - Repetition of words/phrases at beginning of each line
- Conceit - comparison of two dissimilar things
- Pathetic Fallacy - reflection of actions/moods/events through the weather
- Persona - character
- Assonance - repetition of the vowel sound
- Extended Figure - imagery continued throughout poem
- Antithesis - juxtaposition of contrasting
words or ideas (e.g to black for heaven
and yet too white for hell
- Apostrophe - addressing
object/character/idea who
is not there as though they
can reply
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