#1 – Allusion
An allusion is a literary device that references a person, place, thing, or event in the real world. You can use this to paint a clear picture or to even connect with your readers.
Allusions are often used as literary elements that help connect the reader to the works. By referencing something the reader may be familiar with within the real world, this invests them more than if you didn’t have any connections.
2 – Diction
Diction is a literary device that’s the choice of words or style used by the writer in order to convey their message.
Basically, that’s a fancy way of saying that diction is the way in which the author wants to write to a specific audience.2 – Diction
Diction is a literary device that’s the choice of words or style used by the writer in order to convey their message.
Basically, that’s a fancy way of saying that diction is the way in which the author wants to write to a specific audience.
#3 – Alliteration
Alliteration is a literary device that uses the same letters or sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence or title.
There are many nursery rhymes that use alliteration but this is also useful for creating something memorable within your writing.
You can also use alliteration when choosing the title of your book, as it makes it easier to remember, as you can see in the example of alliterative titles below.
Peter pan
black beauty
gone girl
#4 – Allegory
An allegory is a figure of speech where abstract ideas are described using characters, events, or other elements.
That’s more of a fancy way of saying that instead of being literal with an idea, you use characters, events, or other elements in order to describe it in a way the reader can better understand.
Think of it as a story within a story. You use characters, events, or other means to represent the literal meaning.
This one is a little better understood with examples than a definition.
One of the most famous works using allegory is George Orwell’s Animal Farm. The perceived story is about a group of farm animals who rise up and defeat humans, but the underlying story is about the Russian Revoluation.
Using an allegory is often telling a darker story in a way that’s easier to understand and for readers to receive.
#5 – Colloquialism
One way to increase the world-building in your book is to use colloquialisms.
Colloquialisms are expressions, words, and phrases that are used in informal, everyday speech, including slang.
You can use these in a couple of different ways. Firstly, you can use these as slang in the real world, and secondly, you can even create your book’s own colloquialisms for their world and culture, and even when writing dialogue.
EXAMPLES:
Bamboozle – to deceieve
Gonna – going to
Be blue – to be sad
hope this helps