Literary devices
Literary devices or literary techniques
- similar to Rhetorical devices but about literature whereas rhetorical devices regard persuasion
Figurative language
- figures of speech
Literary approaches
- narration
- narrator
- person
- point of view
Literary techniques
point of view
detail
diction
sequence
structure
syntax
tone
vignette
Narrative modes
action
dialogue
description
exposition
interiority
List of literary devices
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogy
- anaphora
- anthropomorphism-
- antithesis
- archetype
- colloquialism
- ellision
- euphemism
- figurative
- flashback
- foreshadowing
- hyperbole
- imagery
- irony
- juxtaposition
- malapropism
- metaphor
- meter
- mood
- motif
- onomatopoeia
- oxymoron
- paradox
- parallelism
- personification
- point of view
- repetition
- rhetorical
- simile
- symbolism
- tone
- tragedy
- tragicomedy
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the difference between...
metaphor and simile
- both are figures of speech
- metaphor
analogy and metaphor
- analogy is a subset of metaphor
- whereas
- analogy makes a literal (actual) comparison via the words as, like
- metaphor makes a non-literal direct comparison or parallel connection
- analogy
- makes a direct point
- analogy is literal
- metaphor creates emphasis and imagery
- metaphor is abstract
- both can be emotional (feelings) or rational (conceptual)
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