Literary teqniques
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- oxymoron
- a contraction in terms
- alliteraltion
- the repetition of consonant sounds within close proximity, ussually in consecitive words within the same sentence or line.
- metaphor
- a direct relationship where one thing or idea
- personification
- where inanimate objects or abstact concepts are seemingly endowed woth human self - awerness
- imagery
- language which describe something in detail using words to create sensory stimulation including visual imagery and sound imagery
- Blank verse
- Non ryming- poetry
- Characterization
- The author's means of conveying to the reader a character's personality, life history, values, pysical attributes, etc.
- irony
- a contrast between what is expected and what actually is or happends
- Hyperbole
- A description which exaggerates ussually emplying extreems and/or superlatibes to convey a positive or negative attribute; hype
- onomatopoeia
- where sounds are spelled out as words or when words desctibing shounds actallu shound like the sounds the describe
- Anthropromorphism
- Where animals or inanimate objects are protrayed in a story as people, such as by walking, talking, or being givin arms, legs.facial features, human locomotion or other forms
- figurative language
- any use of language where the intended meaning differs from the actual literal meaning of the words themselves
- exposition
- where an author interrupts a story in order to explain something, ussually to provide improtant background information
- creative license
- Exaggeration or alteration of facts or reality, for the purpose of enhancing meaning on a fictional context.
- similie
- am indirect relationship where one thing ot ifrs id frdvtibed as being simialr to another ussually contains words like "like" or AS
- diologue
- where characters speak to one another; may often be used to purpose of enhancing meaning on a fictional context
- Dramatic irony
- where the audience or reader is aware of something impertant, of which the characters in the story are not aware
- flashback
- a scene that interrupts the present action to describe and event that took place at an earlier time
- Foreshadowing
- where future events in a story, or prehaps the putcome, are suggested by the author before they happen