Question

10 linguistic devices

Answer 1

1. Definition: uses literary devices
2. Allusion: vents or characters from another story in her own story with the hopes that those events will add context or depth.
3. Personification: attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman.
4. Onomatopoeia: rhetorical effect.
5. Diction: style of speaking or writing
6. Simile: compares two things using 'like' or 'as'
7. Metaphor: compares two things without using 'like' or 'as'
8. Epigraph: epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning.
9. Euphemism: polite, indirect expressions that replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite.
10. Foreshadowing: literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later.
11. Imagery: Usually you can almost picture it is so detailed you feel like you can actually see it happening.