Rhetorical device

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”

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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