I am writing my own novel and this video has helped me well. Concise and good summary of all the devices and with good examples. I enjoyed it. Others complain about the pacing, but hey we have a pause button!
Literature is in tough shape when 99 percent of comments on any given literature vid (including audiobooks of the Western canon) are something like "test tomorrow you saved my life" Good for writers who don't suck, bad for that writer's readership
Wonderful stuff! Thank you. Okay, so you asked at the end what our favorite uses of literary devices are. I have several examples of ones I love from books I love (movies too--the killer personification being "I'm Batman.") Another favorite is a sentence, an elaborate bit of alliterative "formal" diction (using vowels instead of consonants to establish rhythm). It describes someone's reaction to the sound of a cathedral bell, from the perspective of a person under the influence of opium, and it's at the very beginning of Dickens' unfinished detective novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The book first poses this question: "is the cathedral really there?" My best friend and I memorized the sentence that follows when we were about sixteen, and we used to recite it to one another, very slowly, at appropriate (& inappropriate!) moments: "Some vague period of drowsy laughter must be devoted to the consideration of this possibility."
slang is more focused on made-up language typically used by certain groups of people. An example of slang would be: "on fleek" or "cap". Colloquialisms are more informal phrases or words known by a larger population, less about the word and more about the style of being informal (however, slang CAN be included in this). examples of colloquialism are: "gonna" meaning "going to", "be blue" meaning "to be sad", etc. You can see more examples here: self-publishingschool.com/literary-devices/#colloquialism
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This is very interesting.. one of these styles mentioned kinda relates or maybe influenced the way I learn things. I can retain more if I hear situations played out. And then understand the moral of the subject...? That’s wild&werid
What's the similarity? Juxtaposition is putting two things together to compare or contrast. This could be entire scenes or points of view in a story. Oxymoron is an ironic word pair: jumbo shrimp, military intelligence, old news, freezer burn, etc.
Ignore this comment. My understandings: 1. Allusion: Basically a *reference.* Example: "He looks like _Keeanu Reeves_ and _Jesus Christ."_ 2. Diction: Choice of words/word style (I know this has many diffent types of diction) Examples: Formal Diciton "I will ameliorate myself." Informal diction "I shall improve my linguistics skills. 3. Alliteration: similar consonants "The hot pot has a hot top hat." 4. Allegory: I didn't completely understand what this meant. but i guess "a story within a story" idk. 5. Colloquialism: it's like a different culture word style. Example: "Oi bruv, wot ye lookin' at, ye?" 6. Euphemism: alternative words/phrases (to avoid actual term(s) or indecent word(s). Example: "Frick you." 7. Flashbacks: past memory -plot decvice that goes back in time for a specific scene •has to be intentional 8. Foreshadowing: hints or clues? -plot device that is giving hints or clues that will in the future 9. Imagery: use of visually descriptive or figurative language •creates an image for the readers mind (this clip was so short.) 10. Personification: -figurative language that _gives_ human-like characteristics to non-human things 11. Juxtaposition: contrasting elements next to each others to amplify themselves (i didn't get this completely but okay) 12. Metaphor/Simile Metaphor "He is Jesus Christ." (He isn't, he looks like it.) Simile "He is like Keeanu Reeves." 13. Onomatopoeia Word that describes a sound, or that represents a sound, they are italicized. "Bees sounds like buzzzzzzz" BANG! (A sound for a gun) 14. Symbolism: as the name suggests, it is literary device that uses a specific element to symbolize more drastic and bigger "The number 7 is a lucky number." (couldn't understand it completely.) 15. Tone Literary device that uses when a narrator's thoughts, feelings or opinions about what's going on. (couldn't get simplify and understand it completely.)
a metaphor is not intended to help a reader understand something better.. its definition and intention is the antithesis of that. a metaphor is a figure of speech that is abstract and intended to be creative and sometimes symbolic
My ap lit teacher was subscribed to this channel. And the fact that you guys cited Vicious is making me feel too many things. Like….that’s a tumblr sexy man book oml 😅
WRITE IN THE VIDEOS WATH YOU ARE SAING OR WRITE IT BECAUSE FOR EXAMPLE I DONT NOW HOW SPEAK IN INGLISH AN I AM LEARNING AND IS DIFICULT TO ME UNDERSTAND
Im not gonna write a novel but ım here becouse ı have an engilish exam and ım no a native speaker I’m Turk in a Turkish school but still ı have to learn all of these😭
The advantages and disadvantages of the Internet and online games It’s not true that online games don’t provide any benefits! On the other hand, we can’t deny that they have a bad side too. Here are the main advantages and disadvantages of online games. The advantages of online games We interact with other young people, we can create groups and communities, and we help each other: we socialize… We can learn new strategies, solve problems, and meet challenges: we think! We develop our observational skills and work on our attention and concentration: we learn. Can you please help me with the literary devices in the text above?
Great clarity, v enjoyable - was shocked that a piece I wrote on a graveyard was very similar in imagery to the example that popped up. Well, that's my work cut out - originality is key!
1. Allusion 1:10
2. Diction: 2:04
2. Alliteration 4:17
4. Allegory 5:04
5. Colloquialism 5:52
6. Euphemism 6:33
7. Flashbacks 7:52
8. Foreshadowing 8:58
9. Imagery 10:26
10. Personification 10:52
11. Juxtaposition 12:01
12. Metaphor/Simile 13:47
13. Onomatopoeia 14:47
14. Symbolism 15:21
15. Tone 16:11
Thx your a chad
thank you for this !
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Lol
Thx
Watching this 2 hours before English exam
Lol
20 minutes for me
5 minutes 💀
How'd it go
BAD DR!
Watching this for the AP Lit exam tomorrow lol
erravii same good luck
Same
Shii... same
You talk too fast
I hope you studied something else, too....
ohmygod the glitch at 0:31 had my heart racing. i thought i broke my iPad
seventeen Sebong same
Glad to know that the glitch is on the video waah
Same lol
omg omg I was moving my laptop and the glitch went off and I started panicking
Same
Watching this because no matter how many times I analyze a poem or short story I struggle to pick out literary devices
Same here
Timestamps:
0:14 *What are Literary Devices?*
1:06 *Allusion*
2:03 *Diction*
4:16 *Alliteration*
5:01 *Allegory*
5:50 *Colloquialism*
6:30 *Euphemism*
7:50 *Flashbacks*
8:57 *Foreshadowing*
10:23 *Imagery*
10:50 *Personification*
12:00 *Juxtaposition*
13:45 *Metaphor/Simile*
14:45 *Onomatopoeia*
15:20 *Symbolism*
16:10 *Tone*
Ty
I like how I get passionate in studying only before the exams all the time;)
Am I the only one that isn't watching this because of an exam?
✋🏽
Yes
Nope! I'm watching it for an honors project.
No 95 percent of the viewers are like you me included.
I am too
Got English JCE (aka checkpoint) tomorrow.
Damn, really needed this refresher to get out of a writing slump
this helps so much! I can write my final English exam (in Germany) with a much better feeling. thank you.
lmao having literature test tmr and im just cramping everything in my head now
How'd it go?
@@thetongueofangels1882 well i did ok :)
I particularly love oronyms which are word bridging homophones and I've noticed how l can use them to subconsciously convey a secondary meaning.
How u get blank background?
Magic
Green screen maybe
I am watching this for my test thank you very much.
I am writing my own novel and this video has helped me well. Concise and good summary of all the devices and with good examples. I enjoyed it. Others complain about the pacing, but hey we have a pause button!
Agreed!
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Are they also called Stylistic devices?
was it just me who saw the black stuff on screen for one second 0:31 ( keep playing )
gained a new sub! love the content:))
Literature is in tough shape when 99 percent of comments on any given literature vid (including audiobooks of the Western canon) are something like "test tomorrow you saved my life"
Good for writers who don't suck, bad for that writer's readership
Wonderful stuff! Thank you. Okay, so you asked at the end what our favorite uses of literary devices are. I have several examples of ones I love from books I love (movies too--the killer personification being "I'm Batman.") Another favorite is a sentence, an elaborate bit of alliterative "formal" diction (using vowels instead of consonants to establish rhythm). It describes someone's reaction to the sound of a cathedral bell, from the perspective of a person under the influence of opium, and it's at the very beginning of Dickens' unfinished detective novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The book first poses this question: "is the cathedral really there?" My best friend and I memorized the sentence that follows when we were about sixteen, and we used to recite it to one another, very slowly, at appropriate (& inappropriate!) moments: "Some vague period of drowsy laughter must be devoted to the consideration of this possibility."
this person teaches things i would like to teach if i was a teacher
Great information! Thank you.
Are flashbacks an example of a literary device?
Wonderful - Thank you. Using for Homeschool
Thank you very much, this help.
How about the paradox?
Confused by the different between a colloquium and slag diction . I don't know the difference
slang is more focused on made-up language typically used by certain groups of people. An example of slang would be: "on fleek" or "cap". Colloquialisms are more informal phrases or words known by a larger population, less about the word and more about the style of being informal (however, slang CAN be included in this). examples of colloquialism are: "gonna" meaning "going to", "be blue" meaning "to be sad", etc. You can see more examples here: self-publishingschool.com/literary-devices/#colloquialism
If you're curious how you can actually create great fiction (and publish it successfully), check out this free help: self-publishingschool.com/FictionClass?first_touch_channel=social&first_touch__site=sps&First_touch_medium=youtube_-_feed
hi self publishing school...nice video..really appreciate it (:
A really useful video that I will be recommending to my GCSE students
Thank you! Glad to hear it was helpful!
How can we apply literary devices on any novel?
This is very interesting.. one of these styles mentioned kinda relates or maybe influenced the way I learn things. I can retain more if I hear situations played out. And then understand the moral of the subject...? That’s wild&werid
Great video, Bella!
Hi, after hearing this, could you pls clarify whats the difference between juxtaposition and oxymoron?
What's the similarity? Juxtaposition is putting two things together to compare or contrast. This could be entire scenes or points of view in a story. Oxymoron is an ironic word pair: jumbo shrimp, military intelligence, old news, freezer burn, etc.
My exams are from tmrw wish me luck guys
very very very very helpful ...help me pass dp1 English...thnx a lot
you saved MY LIFE!!!!!!
Love your content!
So helpful. You explained all the devices so well!
Hi from Brasil. Thanks so much!!
Ignore this comment.
My understandings:
1. Allusion: Basically a *reference.*
Example:
"He looks like _Keeanu Reeves_ and _Jesus Christ."_
2. Diction: Choice of words/word style
(I know this has many diffent types of diction)
Examples:
Formal Diciton
"I will ameliorate myself."
Informal diction
"I shall improve my linguistics skills.
3. Alliteration: similar consonants
"The hot pot has a hot top hat."
4. Allegory: I didn't completely understand what this meant.
but i guess "a story within a story"
idk.
5. Colloquialism: it's like a different culture word style.
Example:
"Oi bruv, wot ye lookin' at, ye?"
6. Euphemism: alternative words/phrases (to avoid actual term(s) or indecent word(s).
Example:
"Frick you."
7. Flashbacks: past memory
-plot decvice that goes back in time for a specific scene
•has to be intentional
8. Foreshadowing: hints or clues?
-plot device that is giving hints or clues that will in the future
9. Imagery: use of visually descriptive or figurative language
•creates an image for the readers mind
(this clip was so short.)
10. Personification:
-figurative language that _gives_ human-like characteristics to non-human things
11. Juxtaposition:
contrasting elements next to each others to amplify themselves
(i didn't get this completely but okay)
12. Metaphor/Simile
Metaphor
"He is Jesus Christ." (He isn't, he looks like it.)
Simile
"He is like Keeanu Reeves."
13. Onomatopoeia
Word that describes a sound, or that represents a sound, they are italicized.
"Bees sounds like buzzzzzzz"
BANG! (A sound for a gun)
14. Symbolism: as the name suggests, it is literary device that uses a specific element to symbolize more drastic and bigger
"The number 7 is a lucky number."
(couldn't understand it completely.)
15. Tone
Literary device that uses when a narrator's thoughts, feelings or opinions about what's going on.
(couldn't get simplify and understand it completely.)
a metaphor is not intended to help a reader understand something better.. its definition and intention is the antithesis of that. a metaphor is a figure of speech that is abstract and intended to be creative and sometimes symbolic
I enjoy metaphors the most for some reason.
Thank you very much,i understand now.😊
2 hours before my english exam, hopefully poetry goes well!
Watching this for AP Lit exam
perfect video! Thank you!
instead of doing this you can do top 10 literary devices to use
My whole class is watching this rn lol
Greaaaat lesson
Thanks for this video. I think I should do a video like this in my channel
Really really helpful !💚
Got an exam tomorrow lol
1:47 that's more of an eponym rather than an allusion.
I’m watching this before tomorrow’s exam ;)
Watching this 9 minutes before English yearly exam
That spider really scared me. I was looking someone else and suddenly it came out of nowhere 😂😂
Someone put benchmarks
imagery is my favorite. most definitely helpful since my novel is in the works.
Thanks
My daughter watched this is will help her with school
Thank you so much
Glad it was helpful!
Lit exam soon but i found it helpfull💯🔥🔥🔥
thank you and i luv the way u explained it
My ap lit teacher was subscribed to this channel. And the fact that you guys cited Vicious is making me feel too many things. Like….that’s a tumblr sexy man book oml 😅
Watching this 7 hrs before exma
U seem nice u have a nice soothing voice...
"Basically"....
btw you are so professional
0:31 camera hate yall or something
nice
watching this for my final exam due in 12 hours
I played the video at 0.25x and still couldn't pause at the glitch in 0:31
bro whatching this 3mins before English exam
WRITE IN THE VIDEOS WATH YOU ARE SAING OR WRITE IT BECAUSE FOR EXAMPLE I DONT NOW HOW SPEAK IN INGLISH AN I AM LEARNING AND IS DIFICULT TO ME UNDERSTAND
eeee, no mires estos videos si estas arrancando
Ooo
Oop
Me watching this before my English exam in 2 days.
Best literary devices you've never heard of? Synecdoche and metonymy. Those will take your prose up a notch.
Please don't ever write "He was the Deadpool of his time" 😂😂😂😂 Pop culture references age like milk!
Watching this for an essay thats due in 5 hours
Im not gonna write a novel but ım here becouse ı have an engilish exam and ım no a native speaker I’m Turk in a Turkish school but still ı have to learn all of these😭
Went here in the comment section just to check if the glitch at 0:31 is on the video or it is really on my phone yeah
Same
I’m just watching this because my mom made me to
good
I was at number two and realised she was just making puns of real words... like diction...
but a good video nonetheless!
The advantages and disadvantages of the Internet and online games
It’s not true that online games don’t provide any benefits! On the other hand, we can’t deny that they have a bad side too. Here are the main advantages and disadvantages of online games.
The advantages of online games
We interact with other young people, we can create groups and communities, and we help each other: we socialize…
We can learn new strategies, solve problems, and meet challenges: we think!
We develop our observational skills and work on our attention and concentration: we learn.
Can you please help me with the literary devices in the text above?
Watching 5 minutes after finishing my 🙈 paper and 😅 i missed a lot
watching this video und I have exam tomorrow lol 😂
Stuck watching this vid for English
I did colloquial ism 5 times fast
Great clarity, v enjoyable - was shocked that a piece I wrote on a graveyard was very similar in imagery to the example that popped up. Well, that's my work cut out - originality is key!
Wow corect
My favourite is euphemism because it’s fun to tell things to my friends without anyone else knowing what we mean
Holiday homework...
My exam is starting in 2hrs🥲
watched this cuz I wanted techineques to refer to to my anylizing text of animal farm
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Well
I am going to do exam today 😂😂
You could have gone a little faster!
Ok hi I like to talk so sorry if my chats are too much