Authorial intrusion
Used to directly communicate with the audience without the disguise of dialogue/actions
Cacophony
Harsh discordant mixture of sounds
Deus ex machina
an extremely unlikely event that solves a problem seemingly impossible
Motif
a repeated pattern that happens constantly in a particular story
Apostrophe
When the speaker addresses a dead/absent person or abstract/inanimate object
metonomy
when the thing is replaced with a familiar word
Asyndeton
omits conjunctions between related words or clauses
Anaphora
repeating a word or phase at the beginning of successive clauses
Anadiplosis
repetition of a prominent and usually last word in one phrase is used at the beginning of the next clause
litotes
Any phrase that uses negative words/phrases to express positive assertion or understatement
Chiasumus
A 2 part sentence/phrase where the second part is a mirror of the first
Juxtaposition
a technique where 2 contrasting things are placed side by side to extenuate the differences
anastrophe
The inversion of the usual order (one word)
synecdoche
replacing a word/term with a part of it
Hyperbaton
An inversion of the normal order of words (multiple)
Hyperbaton
anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn’t he danced his did
authorial intrusion
In a novel, the narrator suddenly interrupts the story to directly address the reader, saying "Dear reader, I must confess that I am not entirely pleased with how this scene turned out."
cacophony
Grunted, gruff, give
Deus ex machina
In a play, when the protagonist is about to lose everything, suddenly a god appears out of nowhere and saves the day.
Motif
"green light" in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." The green light represents Gatsby's hopes and dreams for the future, particularly his desire to be with Daisy Buchanan. It appears throughout the novel, serving as a symbol of Gatsby's longing and the unattainable nature of his aspirations.
apostrophe
Julius Caesar "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!" Here, Antony is addressing the dead body of Caesar as if it were alive and could hear him.
Metonomy
Referring to the American technology industry as “Silicon Valley”
Asyndenton
The sun was hot, the air was dry, the ground was parched.
anaphora
#“I wish I may; I wish I might.”
anadiplosis
"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
litotes
Instead of saying "I am very happy," one might say "I am not unhappy."
Chiasmus
"Believe not all that you see, but see all that you believe." -
Juxtaposition
In "Romeo and Juliet," Shakespeare uses the literary device of placing the characters' love story against the backdrop of their families' feud.
anastrophe
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing."
antithesis
An object that is the complete opposite of something else
Antithesis
Speech is silver, but silence is gold
Synecdoche
Forestview beat Ashbrook in basketball last night