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English Department |
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Literary Terms and Devices |
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Paradox |
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Parody |
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Pathos |
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Pastoral |
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Personal Essay |
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Personification |
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For a current list of examinable literary terms and devices, click a link Grade 10 http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/specs/grade10/en/07_terms_device.pdf Grade 12 http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/specs/grade12/en/07_literary_terms.pdf |
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Mimicking something or someone by exaggerating or copying certain traits with a satirical intent is a parody. |
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A paradox is a statement that seems to contain a contradiction, but has an underlying truth. For example, “To find yourself, you must lose yourself.” |
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The idealization of country life over city life is a pastoral notion. |
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Writers create pathos when they develop sympathy in the reader through imagery or events. |
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As the name suggests, a personal essay is about a person’s life. It is, therefore, subjective and reflective. |
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If you noted that the “wind whispered through the trees” you would be using personification as it is attributing human characteristics to inanimate things. |
