Friday, June 15, 2007

Literary Devices - What you should know.

Literary terms you should know:

  1. Simile
  2. Metaphor
  3. Personification
  4. Symbols
  5. Hyperbole
  6. Onomatopoeia
  7. Rhythm
  8. Rhyme
  9. Metre
  10. Alliteration
  11. Assonance
  12. Paradox
  13. Contrast/Comparison
  14. Irony
  15. Repetition
  16. Binary opposition
  17. Leitmotif
  18. Tone

Please note that STPM candidates taking this paper need to know all of the above.