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literary devices
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Any aspect of literature that can be identified, interpreted, or analyzed.
Broader Terms
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verbal arts and literature
More specific terms
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characters
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actants
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antagonists
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villains (literature)
NT3
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caricatures
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characterization
NT3
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confidants
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dramatis personae
NT3
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flat characters
NT3
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foils (literary characters)
NT3
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protagonists
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anti-heroes
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round characters
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types (literature)
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literary editing
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emendation
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exegesis
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expurgation
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bowdlerization
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paraphrase
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plagiarism
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textual editing
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textual explication
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textual reconstruction
NT3
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textualization
NT3
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translation (literary editing)
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literary techniques
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figures of speech
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rhetorical figures of speech
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antithesis (figures of speech)
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apostrophe (figures of speech)
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chiasmus
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epanalepsis
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oxymoron
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parallelism (rhetorical figure of speech)
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rhetorical questions
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zeugma
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tenor (figures of speech)
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NT5
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vehicle (figures of speech)
NT4
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tropes (figures of speech)
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allegory
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hyperbole
NT5
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litotes
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metaphor
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NT5
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metonymy
NT5
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periphrasis
NT5
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personification
NT5
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simile
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NT5
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synechdoche
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imagery
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narrative strategies
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techniques of discourse
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techniques of language
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accent (stress)
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NT5
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rhythm (techniques of language)
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archaisms
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bathos
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colloquialism
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consonance
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alliteration
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assonance
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dissonance
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enjambment
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formulaic speech
NT4
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gloss
NT4
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initial rhyme
NT4
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metre
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NT5
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metrical analysis
NT4
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onomatopeia
NT4
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rhyme
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rhyme pattern
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scansion
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verse
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versification
NT5
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versifying
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techniques of narration
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NT4
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figurative techniques of narration
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allusion
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tone
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voice
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frame narratives
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NT5
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framing devices
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narrative patterns
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techniques of plot
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anagnorisis
NT4
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catharsis
NT4
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closure
NT4
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peripeteia
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techniques of setting
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tableau
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texture
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literature classification schemes
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NT3
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motifs (classification)
NT3
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oikotypes
NT3
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oikotypification
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types (classification)
NT2
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narration
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NT3
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discourse (speaking)
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NT4
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dialogues
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NT5
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direct speech
NT4
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diction
NT4
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digressions
NT4
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free indirect discourse
NT4
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monologues
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NT5
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interior monologues
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plot
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climax
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anticlimax
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crisis
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conflict
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internal conflict
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dénouement
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epilogue
NT3
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episodic plots
NT3
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flashbacks
NT3
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prologues
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resolution
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catastrophe
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rising action
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synopsis
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point of view
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first-person narratives
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unreliable narrator
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second-person narratives
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third-person narratives
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NT4
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omniscient narrators
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NT5
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intrusive narrators
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setting
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narrative locations
Date of creation
26-Nov-2007
Accepted term
26-Nov-2007
Descendant terms
136
ARK
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Alternative terms
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Notes
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