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# Grade 11 HL English
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The course code for this page is **ENG3UZ**.
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## Literary Techniques/Devices
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### Description
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- Allusion: A brief and indirect reference to a thing or idea of significance.
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- e.g., *"Look at Einstein over there, thinking he's so smart."*
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- Anecdote: A short and interesting story or event used to support a point.
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- 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!"
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- Hyperbole: An exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis.
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- e.g., *"If you null pointer me one more time I am going to crush you into two billion pieces!"*
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- Imagery: The usage of figurative language to describe concepts in a way that invokes the **senses**.
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- e.g., *"My mother…how sweet and juicy her tender limbs are."*
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- Metaphor: An implicit comparison between two unlike things without the use of "like" or "as".
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- e.g., *"My computer is an absolute potato."*
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- Simile: An explicit comparison between two unlike things *with* the use of "like" or "as".
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- e.g., *"She's as stupid as an elephant!"*
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- Litotes: An understatement by negating a positive or negative expression.
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- e.g., *"My marks aren't the best in the world."*
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- Personification: The application of human concepts to non-humans, such as human-like speech. This is a common example of a metaphor.
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- e.g., *The rock blinked at me with a cute face unlike any other I had seen before. "…Owo. Uwu?"*
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- Adjectives and adverbs: Words that describe and modify nouns and verbs, respectively.
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- e.g., *The traitorous man died painfully.*
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### Sound
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- Alliteration: A number of words with the same beginning consonant sound that appear close together in sequence.
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- e.g., *The dancing damsel dazzled the crowd.*
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- Assonance: A repetition of similar vowel sounds in words close to each other in a sentence.
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- e.g., *"Oh, please let her go."*
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- Dialect: A regional variety of language with spelling, grammar, and pronunciation that differentiates a population from others around them.
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- e.g., *"There's five of them dirty ducks flappin' out and about, sir!"*
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- 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).
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- e.g., *"The velvet…it's so lovely, and so very soft…"*
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- Onomatopoeia: A word which imitates a sound effect.
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- e.g., *The cat meowed as he looked on with adoring eyes that tore through my squealing heart.*
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- Pun: A play on words that involve words with similar sounds but different meanings.
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- e.g., *"Lettuce finish our salads."*
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- Repetition: Using a phrase for emphasis multiple times within close proximity.
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- e.g., *"I was too late. I was far too late. My dog…she tried her best."*
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- Rhyme: A repetition of words whose end syllables sound similar.
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- e.g., *Roses are red / Violets are blue / Your family is dead / And you will be too*
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- Rhyme scheme: The rhyming pattern or structure at the end of each line of poetry.
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- e.g., the above poem uses ABAB as its rhyme scheme.
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- Rhythm: The usage of stressed and unstressed syllables to demonstrate patterns, especially in verses.
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- Anapest: Three syllables, in which the first two are unstressed while the last is stressed.
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- e.g., *"'Twas the* ***night*** *before* ***Christ****mas and* ***all*** *through the* ***house****"*
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- Dactyl: Three syllables, in which the first is stressed while the rest are unstressed.
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- e.g., *"Marvelous!"*
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- Iamb: Two syllables, in which the first is unstressed while the second is stressed.
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- e.g., *"You* ***stu****pid* ***id****iot."*
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- Spondee: Two syllables, both of which are stressed.
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- e.g., *"Rage, rage against the dying of the light"* (Dylan Thomas)
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- Trochee: Two syllables, in which the first is stressed while the second is unstressed.
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- e.g., *Double, double, toil and trouble* (William Shakespeare)
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### Organisation and Pace
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- Blank verse:
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- Enjambment:
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- Caesura:
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- Form:
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- Ballad:
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- Concrete poem:
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- Couplet:
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- Dirge:
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- Dramatic monologue:
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- Lyric:
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- Ode:
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- Quatrain:
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- Sonnet:
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- Free verse:
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- Genre:
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- Line:
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- Meter:
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- Stanza:
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- Sentence types:
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- Sentence lengths:
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- Syntax:
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- Dialogue vs. narrative:
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### Meaning
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- Abstract language:
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- Allegory:
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- Ambiguity:
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- Colloquialism:
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- Concrete language:
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- Connotation:
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- Contrast/Juxtaposition:
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- Denotation:
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- Diction:
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- Epigram:
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- Irony:
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- Jargon:
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- Motif:
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- Oxymoron:
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- Paradox:
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- Pathetic fallacy:
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- Symbol:
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- Tone:
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- Theme:
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