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## Literary Techniques/Devices
**Decription**
### Description
- Allusion:
- Anecdote:
- Hyperbole:
- Imagery:
- Metaphor:
- Simile:
- Litotes:
- Personification:
- Adjectives and adverbs:
- Allusion: A brief and indirect reference to a thing or idea of significance.
- e.g., *"Look at Einstein over there, thinking he's so smart."*
- Anecdote: A short and interesting story or event used to support a point.
- e.g., *"You should all be grateful! When I was a young lad, we didn't have these fancy phones! We had to *talk* to people's *faces!"
- Hyperbole: An exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis.
- e.g., *"If you null pointer me one more time I am going to crush you into two billion pieces!"*
- Imagery: The usage of figurative language to describe concepts in a way that invokes the **senses**.
- e.g., *"My mother…how sweet and juicy her tender limbs are."*
- Metaphor: An implicit comparison between two unlike things without the use of "like" or "as".
- e.g., *"My computer is an absolute potato."*
- Simile: An explicit comparison between two unlike things *with* the use of "like" or "as".
- e.g., *"She's as stupid as an elephant!"*
- Litotes: An understatement by negating a positive or negative expression.
- e.g., *"My marks aren't the best in the world."*
- Personification: The application of human concepts to non-humans, such as human-like speech. This is a common example of a metaphor.
- e.g., *The rock blinked at me with a cute face unlike any other I had seen before. "…Owo. Uwu?"*
- Adjectives and adverbs: Words that describe and modify nouns and verbs, respectively.
- e.g., *The traitorous man died painfully.*
**Sound**
### Sound
- Alliteration:
- Assonance:
- Dialect:
- Euphony:
- Onomatopoeia:
- Pun:
- Repetition:
- Rhyme:
- Rhyme scheme:
- Rhythm (anapest, dactyl, iamb, spondee, trochee):
- Alliteration: A number of words with the same beginning consonant sound that appear close together in sequence.
- e.g., *The dancing damsel dazzled the crowd.*
- Assonance: A repetition of similar vowel sounds in words close to each other in a sentence.
- e.g., *"Oh, please let her go."*
- Dialect: A regional variety of language with spelling, grammar, and pronunciation that differentiates a population from others around them.
- e.g., *"There's five of them dirty ducks flappin' out and about, sir!"*
- Euphony: The use of words and phrases that are pleasing to the ear by using long vowel sounds, harmonious constants (l, m, n, r, f, v), and soft consonants or semi-vowels (w, s, y, th, wh).
- e.g., *"The velvet…it's so lovely, and so very soft…"*
- Onomatopoeia: A word which imitates a sound effect.
- e.g., *The cat meowed as he looked on with adoring eyes that tore through my squealing heart.*
- Pun: A play on words that involve words with similar sounds but different meanings.
- e.g., *"Lettuce finish our salads."*
- Repetition: Using a phrase for emphasis multiple times within close proximity.
- e.g., *"I was too late. I was far too late. My dog…she tried her best."*
- Rhyme: A repetition of words whose end syllables sound similar.
- e.g., *Roses are red / Violets are blue / Your family is dead / And you will be too*
- Rhyme scheme: The rhyming pattern or structure at the end of each line of poetry.
- e.g., the above poem uses ABAB as its rhyme scheme.
- Rhythm: The usage of stressed and unstressed syllables to demonstrate patterns, especially in verses.
- Anapest: Three syllables, in which the first two are unstressed while the last is stressed.
- e.g., *"'Twas the* ***night*** *before* ***Christ****mas and* ***all*** *through the* ***house****"*
- Dactyl: Three syllables, in which the first is stressed while the rest are unstressed.
- e.g., *"Marvelous!"*
- Iamb: Two syllables, in which the first is unstressed while the second is stressed.
- e.g., *"You* ***stu****pid* ***id****iot."*
- Spondee: Two syllables, both of which are stressed.
- e.g., *"Rage, rage against the dying of the light"* (Dylan Thomas)
- Trochee: Two syllables, in which the first is stressed while the second is unstressed.
- e.g., *Double, double, toil and trouble* (William Shakespeare)
**Organisation and Pace**
### Organisation and Pace
- Blank verse:
- Enjambment:
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- Syntax:
- Dialogue vs. narrative:
**Meaning**
### Meaning
- Abstract language:
- Allegory: