English 9H final- literary and rhetorical devices

narration

way a story is told

anecdote

short, amusing personal story

characterization

character description; direct or indirect

colloquialism

word from a specific time or region

allusion

reference to well-known person, thing, etc

conflict (external/internal)

struggle (man vs. society, man, self, nature)

foreshadowing

hint to a future event

dramatic irony

audience knows more than characters

theme

main message

flashback

interruption in story-line to go back to past event

point of view

perspective from which a story is told

irony

opposite of what is expected

diction

word choice

personification

human attributes on non-human objects

simile

comparion -like or as

metaphor

comparison- direct

tone

autor’s attitude (positive, negative, neutral)

repetition

repeated words/phrase

anaphora

word/phrase begins multiple sentences or phrases (ex. Every breath you take. Every bond you brake. Every step you take.)

ethos/ ethical appeal

credibility- experience, knowledge, evidence (resume)

logos/ logical appeal

facts, stats, analogics

pathos/ emotional appeal

feel (sympathetic, angry)

juxtaposition

2 contrasting things placed purposefully close together

oxymoron

2 words paired together

syntax

sentence structure (simple, compound, complex)

rhetorical questions

question meant to make audience to think

symbolism

one thing represents another

imagery

words that appeal to the 5 senses

alliteration

words that purposely start with the same sound

hyperbole

exaggeration for emphasis

setting

time and place

onomatopoeia

sound words (buzz, pop)

parallelism

balanced sentence (I came. I saw. I conquered.)