literary devices. Ethnographic Thesaurus

literary devices

Scope note

Any aspect of literature that can be identified, interpreted, or analyzed.

Broader Terms

BT↑ verbal arts and literature

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

Date of creation

26-Nov-2007

Accepted term

26-Nov-2007

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