Vocab 3.1 Devices

A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work

• allusion

• illusion

• anaphora

• anophora

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The deliberate repetition of the successive clause, phrase, or sentence for artistic effect

• anaphora

• anophora

• asyndeton

• asindeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The deliberate omission of a word or phrase from prose done for effect by the author

• ellipsis

• ellipses

• metonymy

• metonym

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

 The use of a word or phrase to stand in for something else which it is often associated 

• metonymy

• metanym

• ellipsis

• ellipses

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A list of items which omits conjunctions; often used to speed up the pace or to add a sense of urgency

• asyndeton

• asindeton

• anaphora

• polysyndeton

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

A list of items which are all separated by conjunctions; often used to slow down the pace or to add an authoritative tone 

• polysyndeton

• polisyndeton

• asyndeton

• anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Type the device:

Luster came away from the flower tree, and we went along the fence, and they stopped, and I looked...

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Type the device:

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Type the device:

The suits on Wall Street walked off with most of our savings.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Type the device:

He's a Lennie -- always dreaming big but always in trouble.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4