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Key Literary Elements and Devices

This document provides definitions for various literary elements, devices, and styles including: exposition, denouement, and foil as elements; apostrophe, hyperbole, metonymy, and synecdoche as devices; and meter, iambic pentameter, heroic couplet, and sonnet as poetic styles and genres.

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Key Literary Elements and Devices

This document provides definitions for various literary elements, devices, and styles including: exposition, denouement, and foil as elements; apostrophe, hyperbole, metonymy, and synecdoche as devices; and meter, iambic pentameter, heroic couplet, and sonnet as poetic styles and genres.

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Literary Elements

exposition
background, intro

denouement
conclusion

foil
emphasizes traits of another character

theme
unifying or dominating idea

Literary Devices
apostrophe
speaking to nonhuman or absent human

hyperbole
exaggeration

metonymy
usually abstract entity is repsented by one of its parts

synecdoche
tangible entity represnted by one of its parts

allusion
reference to something outside of work

Rhetorical Devices
syntax
word combinations

Sound Devices
assonance
repetition of vowel sound in word

onomatopoeia
word that represents sound

Poetic Styles and Genres


meter
set rhythm of poem

iambic pentameter
second syllable accentuated, five iambs to a line

heroic couplet
AABB iambic pentameter form

sonnet
14 line iambic pentameter, serious yet lofty

blank verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter

sprung rhythm
variety in meter and rhyme scheme

ode
praises something existing

elegy
praises someone dead

ballad
narrative poem with tragicomic tone, stanzas usually 4 line

concrete poetry
aka emblematic poetry, forms picture with words

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