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== List of literary devices == | == List of literary devices == | ||
The fundamental literary devices are ''plot, setting, character, theme and style.'' | |||
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* antithesis | * antithesis | ||
* archetype | * archetype | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:characterization| also called "character development"; the direct or indirect narrative development of a character's qualities, motives, actions, appearance, etc.; note that | |||
"character" as a distinct literary technique is a modern development; ancient texts focused on archetypes and mythological character "types" to represent larger ideas, whereas modern character development is focused on the characters themselves}}</ul></li> | |||
* colloquialism | * colloquialism | ||
* direct characterization | * comedy | ||
* counter-argument | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:direct characterization| explicit character development or display through explicit descriptions or development of a characters traits; ex. "His hair was messy. He was sullen, tired, ill-disposed"}}</ul></li> | |||
* ellision | * ellision | ||
* epistrophe | |||
* euphemism | * euphemism | ||
* figurative | * figurative | ||
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* foreshadowing | * foreshadowing | ||
* hyperbole | * hyperbole | ||
* hypothetical argument (rhetorical situation) | |||
* imagery | * imagery | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:indirect characterization| implicit character development or display through descriptions or development of a characters through their actions and interactions with other characters; ex. "She decided upon intervening herself in the affair, interjecting her words despite their rejection"}}</ul></li> | |||
* irony | * irony | ||
* juxtaposition | * juxtaposition | ||
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* repetition | * repetition | ||
* rhetorical | * rhetorical question | ||
* rhetorical situation | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:setting| the place and time that serves as a narrative "backdrop" or "mood", i.e. where the narrative happens, what is around it, and what "mood" does it evoke; setting is a primary literary device}}</ul></li> | |||
* simile | * simile | ||
* symbolism | * symbolism | ||