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    Literary Device

    Wednesday, October 5, 2022 11:06 PM

    LITERARY DEVICES
    1. Imagery - It uses figurative language to create visual representations of actions, objects, and ideas in our minds to appeal to our physical senses.
    2. Metaphor - It compares two distinct objects and draw a similarity between them
    3. Irony - It is used to create an outcome to what was, or might have been, expected

     LITERARY ELEMENTS
     Definition
    • are the essential ingredients required to create any piece of literature
    • it is present in every literary text including poems, plays, novels, short stories, feature articles, etc.

     List of Literary Elements


    1. Characters
    – In fictional literature, authors use many different types of characters to tell their stories.
    – Different types of characters fulfill different roles in the narrative process.
    – Different Types of Characters:
    ○ Dynamic - A dynamic character is a person who changes over time, usually as a result of resolving a central conflict or facing a major crisis.
    ○ Static - A static character does not change over time; his or her personality does not transform or evolve.
    ○ Round - A rounded character is anyone who has a complex personality he or she is often portrayed as a conflicted or contradictory person.
    ○ Flat - A flat character is the opposite of a rounded character. This literary personality is notable for one kind of personality trait or characteristic.
    ○ Stock - Stock characters have become conventional or stereotypical through repeated use in particular stories.
    ○ Protagonist - The protagonist is the central person in a story and is often referred to as the story's main character. They may not always be admirable (e.g., anti-hero).
    ○ Antagonist - The antagonist, as opposed to the protagonist, is the villain of the story. They are considered as the rival of the protagonist.
    ○ Foil - A foil is any character whose personal qualities contrast with another character.
    ○ Symbolic - A symbolic character is any major or minor character representing some major idea or aspect of society.

    2. Conflict
    – The essence of fiction. It creates the plot.
    – Characterized by a struggle between two opposing forces.
    – Different Types of Conflict:
    ○ Man vs. Man
    ○ Man vs. Nature
    ○ Man vs. Society
    ○ Man vs. Self
    ○ Man vs. Technology
    ○ Man vs. Supernatural

    3. Setting
    – The when and where of a literary text.
    – It includes:
    ○ Place
    ○ Time
    ○ Weather Condition
    ○ Social Condition

    4. Plot
    – The sequence of events that make up a story.

    5. Point of View
    – What the character or narrator telling the story can see
    – The narrator's perspective
    – Different Types of POV:
    ○ First Person - The character is part of the story and uses the pronoun "I"
    ○ Second Person - Uses the pronoun "You"; This POV is not common in fiction
    ○ Third Person Objective - Only shows the actions of the characters
    ○ Third Person Limited - Knows the actions, thoughts and feelings but is only limited to one character
    ○ Third Person Omniscient - Full knowledge of all character's actions, thoughts and situations

     LITERARY TECHNIQUES
     Definition
    • used by the author to bring essence or life to the composition
    • varies from one author to another

     List of Literary Techniques


    1. Dark Humor

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    1. Dark Humor
    – Treating serious subjects as a joke, sometimes with emotionally distant authors
    – Playful use of language
    ○ Deadpool
    ○ Death at a Funeral

    2. Intertextuality
    – Making use of a textual reference within some body of text, which reflects again the text used as a reference
    – Quotations, references and allusions, designed to make apparent that every text absorbs and transforms some other text somewhere
    ○ Into the Woods
    ○ Love Story (Song)

    3. Pastiche
    – Means pasting together as an homage to or a parody of past literary styles
    – Imitates a famous literary work by another writer to embody a new literary work
    ○ Spirited Away
    ○ Alice in Wonderland

    4. Metafiction
    – a self-conscious literary style in which the narrator or characters are aware that they are part of a work of fiction

    5. Temporal Distortion
    – The use of non-linear timelines and narrative techniques in a story
    – Jumps forward or backward in time
    ○ Men in Black 3
    ○ Avengers: Endgame

    6. Magic Realism
    – A magic insight into reality; the art of capturing something in the real world that would not be possible and manufacturing it to be believable
    – While there is magic going on, the world is not into it and remains real
    ○ Age of Adeline
    ○ Paddington

    7. Technoculture
    – A neologism which refers to the interaction between technology and culture
    – It shows how culture is influenced by technology. It is also known as cyberculture
    – Unlike hyperreality, technoculture examines society, politics, and culture with the effects of advancements
    ○ Wall-E
    ○ Her

    8. Hyperreality
    – The inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technological advanced postmodern culture
    – Unlike technoculture, it examines themes of consumerism and inability to distinguish reality similar way as to how we see advertisement products and the real product
    – Physical Reality vs Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality
    ○ Matrix
    ○ Alice in Wonderland

    9. Paranoia
    – The belief that there is something out of the ordinary, while everything remains the same
    – Examines psychology and the mind of a subject reality
    ○ Joker
    ○ Black Swan

    10. Maximalism
    – Denotes fictional works that are unusually long and complex, are digressive in style, and make use of a wide array of literary devices and techniques
    – Consists a lot of characters and conflicts and is often a film series
    ○ Harry Potter
    ○ Lord of the Rings

    11. Minimalism
    – Short, slice-of-life stories where readers have to use their own imaginations to create the story.
    – Unexceptional characters, economy with words, spare style, lacking adjectives, adverbs and meaningless details
    ○ The Shallows
    ○ The Breakfast Club

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