Literary techniques
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- Created on: 13-04-14 17:24
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- Literary Techniques
- Climax
- Colloquialism
- Comedy
- Stage directions
- Comic relief
- Humorous moments inserted in tragic dramas to provide emotional relief from tragic issues
- E.g. Hardy's singing
- Humorous moments inserted in tragic dramas to provide emotional relief from tragic issues
- Complication
- A twist to prolong climax+ heighten tension
- Alliteration
- Diction
- The author's choice of words
- Dramatic irony
- When a character is unaware of smth. the readers know
- Explicit
- Hyperbole
- Implicit
- Implied
- Inference
- Idiom
- Doesn't mean what is says
- Symbolism
- Irony
- The real meaning is contradicted by the words used
- Metaphor
- When smth. is described as if it were another
- Personification
- Simile
- Understatement
- Word play
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