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What is the term for the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is associated?
What is the term for the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is associated?
What is the purpose of phonological deviations in poetry?
What is the purpose of phonological deviations in poetry?
What is the term for a direct comparison of two unrelated things?
What is the term for a direct comparison of two unrelated things?
What is the term for the omission of an initial part of a word or phrase?
What is the term for the omission of an initial part of a word or phrase?
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What is the purpose of poetic license?
What is the purpose of poetic license?
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What is the term for a comparison of one thing to another of a different kind?
What is the term for a comparison of one thing to another of a different kind?
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What is the term for the omission of a final part of a word?
What is the term for the omission of a final part of a word?
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What is the term for an exaggeration or overstatement?
What is the term for an exaggeration or overstatement?
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What is deviation in literary devices?
What is deviation in literary devices?
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What is an example of lexical deviation?
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What is grammatical deviation an example of?
What is grammatical deviation an example of?
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What is an example of morphological deviation?
What is an example of morphological deviation?
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What is an example of semantic deviation?
What is an example of semantic deviation?
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What is an example of pleonasm?
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What is an example of oxymoron?
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What is parallelism?
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Study Notes
Devices of Foregrounding
- Deviation: an unexpected irregularity that breaks a set of rules, resulting in surprise for the reader and drawing attention to the text itself
Types of Deviation
- Lexical Deviation: violation of lexical rules, e.g., nonce formation, neologism, and coinage
- Examples: Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, "I decided to toothbrush my way in the bathroom"
- Grammatical Deviation: violation of irregularity at the level of sentence or phrase structure
- Examples: "It does not be ligning she", "Saw you anything?", "I doesn’t like him"
- Morphological Deviation: intentional deviation from ordinary spelling, formation, construction, or application of words
- Examples: double negative, double comparative, double superlative
- Semantic Deviation: ambiguousness of phrases and words in a sentence
- Examples: semantic oddity, pleonasm, periphrasis, tautology, oxymoron, paradox
Figurative Language
- 4 Types of Figurative Languages:
- Synecdoche: a part is put for the whole
- Metonymy: the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is associated
- Metaphor: direct comparison of two unrelated things
- Simile: comparison of one thing to another of a different kind (as, like)
Tropes
- Honest deception: a trope that involves figurative language
- 3 types:
- Hyperbole (exaggeration): represents things as greater or less, better or worse, than they really are
- Examples: "The waves ran mountain high", "I’ll love you till China and Africa meet..."
- Litotes (understatement): a figure of speech that involves making an understatement
- Examples: "Not a bad singer", "The name of Britain’s biggest dog is “Tiny”"
- Irony: language that, taken literally, expresses the contrary of what is meant
- Example: Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Cry aloud, for he is a god”
- Hyperbole (exaggeration): represents things as greater or less, better or worse, than they really are
- 3 types:
Phonological Deviation
- 2 types of phonological deviations:
- Conventional license of verse composition
- 3 types of phonological deviations:
- Aphesis: omission of an initial part of a word or phrase
- Examples: 'tis, 'lone, 'mid
- Syncope: omission of a medial part of a word
- Examples: ne'er, pow'r, o'er
- Apocope: omission of a final part of a word
- Examples: oft', wi'
- Aphesis: omission of an initial part of a word or phrase
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Explore the literary devices of foregrounding, including deviation and parallelism, and their effects on the reader. Learn about the different types of deviation and how they are used in literature.
