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This document contains two columns: one listing literary devices the author already knows, and one listing devices they need to learn. The author would like to use the same learning technique as their AP English Language class, which effectively taught literary devices in a way that stuck in their memory until exams. While the author studied many of the devices on the "need to learn" list last year, they have since forgotten how to apply or identify them, so reviewing the devices using the same approach would be beneficial.

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This document contains two columns: one listing literary devices the author already knows, and one listing devices they need to learn. The author would like to use the same learning technique as their AP English Language class, which effectively taught literary devices in a way that stuck in their memory until exams. While the author studied many of the devices on the "need to learn" list last year, they have since forgotten how to apply or identify them, so reviewing the devices using the same approach would be beneficial.

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What I know What I need to learn

● Allusion ● Allegory
● Ambiguity ● Alliteration
● Analogy ● Anastrophe
● Anaphora ● Antimetabole
● Anecdote ● Aphorism
● Antagonist ● Apposition
● Antithesis ● Assonance
● Antihero ● Asyndeton
● Anthropomorphism (Personification) ● Chiasmus
● Apostrophe ● Colloquialism
● Ballance ● Conceit
● Characterization (Indirect, Direct, ● Confessional Poetry
Static, Dynamic, Flat, Round) ● Couplet
● Cliche ● Didactic
● Comedy ● Elegy
● Conflict (External, Internal) ● Epanalepsis
● Connotation ● Epic
● Dialect ● Epigraph
● Diction ● Epistrophe
● Essay ● Epithet
● Argumentation (Persuasion, ● Farce
Argument, Causal Relationship, ● Free Verse
Description, Exposition, Narrative) ● Hypotactic
● Explication ● Inversion
● Fable ● Juxtaposition
● Figurative Language ● Litotes
● Flashback ● Local Color
● Foil ● Loose Sentence
● Foreshadowing ● Lyric POem
● Hyperbole ● Metonymy
● Imagery ● Mood
● Irony (Verbal, Situational, Dramatic) ● Oxymoron
● Metaphor (Implied, Extended, Dead, ● Paradox (Koan)
Mixed) ● Parallel Structure
● Motif ● Paratactic Sentence
● Motivation ● Parody
● Onomatopoeia ● Periodic
● Parable ● Polysyndeton
● Personification ● Pun
● Plot (Exposition, Rising Action, ● Quatrain
Climax, Resolution) ● Refrain
● Point of View (First Person, Third ● Rhythm
Person, Omniscient, Objective) ● Soliloquy
● Protagonist ● Synecdoche
● Rhetoric ● Syntactic Fluency
● Rhetorical Question ● Syntactic Permutation
● Romance ● Tall Tale
● Satire ● Telegraphic Sentence
● Simile ● Tricolon
● Stereotype ● Understatement
● Stream of Consciousness ● Unity
● Style ● Vernacular
● Suspense ● Impressionism
● Symbol ● Naturalism
● Theme ● Rationalism
● Tone ● Regionalism
● Tragedy ● Surrealism
● Modernism
● Plain Style
● Puritanism
● Realism
● Romanticism
● Symbolism
● Transcendentalism

The technique I would like to use to learn the literary devices I don’t already know would be the
same technique we used in AP English Language with Ms. McCartt. I thought it was effective at
providing clarity on the device while retaining the information from the time we learned it till the
test. Quite a few of the literary devices on the “what i need to learn” column are devices I
examined last year in AP lang. However, I forgot how to actually apply/ identify them in a given
text because I have not looked into them for quite some time.

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