I sent a copy of Mabbul and the Emerald Planet to my parents. My mom, a retired English teacher, asked if the use of all the literary devices included were intentional. “Well”, I answered, “I may not know all the names of all the devices, I doubt that I went out of my way to incorporate any device, I just wrote and this was the way I told the story.”
Now that the book is written, we went back to evaluate the book as if we were in some English lit class. Keep in mind that most things being dissected do not survive dissection.
Literary Devices refer to the typical structures used by writers in their works to convey his or her messages in a simple manner to the readers. When employed properly, the different literary devices help readers to appreciate, interpret and analyze a literary work.
There are several web sites listing literary devices: one that I used is literarydevices.net.
This section is by no means complete, and is still under construction.
Active Voice
Allegory
Alliteration:
Allussion:
Amplification:
Anachronism:
Anecdote:
Antithesis:
Aphorismis:
Archetype:
Authorial Intrusion:
Bibliomancy:
Bildungsroman:
Cacophony:
Cadence:
Cumulative Sentence:
Denotation:
Diction:
Ekphrasis:
Faulty Parallelism:
Flashback:
Foil:
Foreshadowing:
Frame Story:
Hyperbole:
Imagery:
Irony:
Isocolon:
juxtaposition:
Metaaphor:
Mood:
Personification:
Simile:
Stream of Consciousness:
Symbolism:
Understatement: