Literary Devices: How to Use Literary Elements to Improve Writing

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1. Allusion 1:10 2. Diction: 2:04 2. Alliteration 4:17 4. Allegory 5:04 5. Colloquialism 5:52 6. Euphemism 6:33 7. Flashbacks 7:52 8. Foreshadowing 8:58 9. Imagery 10:26 10. Personification 10:52 11. Juxtaposition 12:01 12. Metaphor/Simile 13:47 13. Onomatopoeia 14:47 14. Symbolism 15:21 15. Tone 16:11

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Watching this for the AP Lit exam tomorrow lol

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Watching this because no matter how many times I analyze a poem or short story I struggle to pick out literary devices

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Timestamps: 0:14 *What are Literary Devices?* 1:06 *Allusion* 2:03 *Diction* 4:16 *Alliteration* 5:01 *Allegory* 5:50 *Colloquialism* 6:30 *Euphemism* 7:50 *Flashbacks* 8:57 *Foreshadowing* 10:23 *Imagery* 10:50 *Personification* 12:00 *Juxtaposition* 13:45 *Metaphor/Simile* 14:45 *Onomatopoeia* 15:20 *Symbolism* 16:10 *Tone*

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Damn, really needed this refresher to get out of a writing slump

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lmao having literature test tmr and im just cramping everything in my head now

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How'd it go?

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@@thetongueofangels1882 well i did ok :)

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this helps so much! I can write my final English exam (in Germany) with a much better feeling. thank you.

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I am writing my own novel and this video has helped me well. Concise and good summary of all the devices and with good examples. I enjoyed it. Others complain about the pacing, but hey we have a pause button!

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Nope! I'm watching it for an honors project.

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Got English JCE (aka checkpoint) tomorrow.

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A really useful video that I will be recommending to my GCSE students

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Thank you! Glad to hear it was helpful!

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Literature is in tough shape when 99 percent of comments on any given literature vid (including audiobooks of the Western canon) are something like "test tomorrow you saved my life" Good for writers who don't suck, bad for that writer's readership

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I particularly love oronyms which are word bridging homophones and I've noticed how l can use them to subconsciously convey a secondary meaning.

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Watching this for AP Lit exam

[@tandyjen]

Wonderful stuff! Thank you. Okay, so you asked at the end what our favorite uses of literary devices are. I have several examples of ones I love from books I love (movies too--the killer personification being "I'm Batman.") Another favorite is a sentence, an elaborate bit of alliterative "formal" diction (using vowels instead of consonants to establish rhythm). It describes someone's reaction to the sound of a cathedral bell, from the perspective of a person under the influence of opium, and it's at the very beginning of Dickens' unfinished detective novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The book first poses this question: "is the cathedral really there?" My best friend and I memorized the sentence that follows when we were about sixteen, and we used to recite it to one another, very slowly, at appropriate (& inappropriate!) moments: "Some vague period of drowsy laughter must be devoted to the consideration of this possibility."

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imagery is my favorite. most definitely helpful since my novel is in the works.

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2 hours before my english exam, hopefully poetry goes well!

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Great information! Thank you.

[@Nojell]

This is very interesting.. one of these styles mentioned kinda relates or maybe influenced the way I learn things. I can retain more if I hear situations played out. And then understand the moral of the subject...? That’s wild&werid

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My exams are from tmrw wish me luck guys

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So helpful. You explained all the devices so well!

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I enjoy metaphors the most for some reason.

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Thank you very much,i understand now.😊

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Ignore this comment. My understandings: 1. Allusion: Basically a *reference.* Example: "He looks like _Keeanu Reeves_ and _Jesus Christ."_ 2. Diction: Choice of words/word style (I know this has many diffent types of diction) Examples: Formal Diciton "I will ameliorate myself." Informal diction "I shall improve my linguistics skills. 3. Alliteration: similar consonants "The hot pot has a hot top hat." 4. Allegory: I didn't completely understand what this meant. but i guess "a story within a story" idk. 5. Colloquialism: it's like a different culture word style. Example: "Oi bruv, wot ye lookin' at, ye?" 6. Euphemism: alternative words/phrases (to avoid actual term(s) or indecent word(s). Example: "Frick you." 7. Flashbacks: past memory -plot decvice that goes back in time for a specific scene •has to be intentional 8. Foreshadowing: hints or clues? -plot device that is giving hints or clues that will in the future 9. Imagery: use of visually descriptive or figurative language •creates an image for the readers mind (this clip was so short.) 10. Personification: -figurative language that _gives_ human-like characteristics to non-human things 11. Juxtaposition: contrasting elements next to each others to amplify themselves (i didn't get this completely but okay) 12. Metaphor/Simile Metaphor "He is Jesus Christ." (He isn't, he looks like it.) Simile "He is like Keeanu Reeves." 13. Onomatopoeia Word that describes a sound, or that represents a sound, they are italicized. "Bees sounds like buzzzzzzz" BANG! (A sound for a gun) 14. Symbolism: as the name suggests, it is literary device that uses a specific element to symbolize more drastic and bigger "The number 7 is a lucky number." (couldn't understand it completely.) 15. Tone Literary device that uses when a narrator's thoughts, feelings or opinions about what's going on. (couldn't get simplify and understand it completely.)

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Are they also called Stylistic devices?

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Watching this 9 minutes before English yearly exam

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instead of doing this you can do top 10 literary devices to use

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My daughter watched this is will help her with school

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was it just me who saw the black stuff on screen for one second 0:31 ( keep playing )

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How about the paradox?

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Are flashbacks an example of a literary device?

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[@glchavez1]

a metaphor is not intended to help a reader understand something better.. its definition and intention is the antithesis of that. a metaphor is a figure of speech that is abstract and intended to be creative and sometimes symbolic

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How u get blank background?

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Great clarity, v enjoyable - was shocked that a piece I wrote on a graveyard was very similar in imagery to the example that popped up. Well, that's my work cut out - originality is key!

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How can we apply literary devices on any novel?

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Hi, after hearing this, could you pls clarify whats the difference between juxtaposition and oxymoron?

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What's the similarity? Juxtaposition is putting two things together to compare or contrast. This could be entire scenes or points of view in a story. Oxymoron is an ironic word pair: jumbo shrimp, military intelligence, old news, freezer burn, etc.

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Confused by the different between a colloquium and slag diction . I don't know the difference

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slang is more focused on made-up language typically used by certain groups of people. An example of slang would be: "on fleek" or "cap". Colloquialisms are more informal phrases or words known by a larger population, less about the word and more about the style of being informal (however, slang CAN be included in this). examples of colloquialism are: "gonna" meaning "going to", "be blue" meaning "to be sad", etc. You can see more examples here: self-publishingschool.com/literary-devices/#colloquialism

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I was at number two and realised she was just making puns of real words... like diction...

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1:47 that's more of an eponym rather than an allusion.

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Best literary devices you've never heard of? Synecdoche and metonymy. Those will take your prose up a notch.

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