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Alliteration is the repetition of syllable -initial consonant sounds between nearby words, or of syllable-initial vowels, if the syllables in question do not start with a consonant. [1] It is often used as a literary device. A common example is " P eter P iper p icked a p eck of p ickled p e pp ers," in which the "p" sound is repeated.
The easiest stylistic device to identify is a simile, signaled by the use of the words "like" or "as". A simile is a comparison used to attract the reader's attention and describe something in descriptive terms. Example: "From up here on the fourteenth floor, my brother Charley looks like an insect scurrying among other insects."
Psychological fiction. In literature, psychological fiction (also psychological realism) is a narrative genre that emphasizes interior characterization and motivation to explore the spiritual, emotional, and mental lives of its characters. The mode of narration examines the reasons for the behaviours of the character, which propel the plot and ...
Cognitive poetics is a school of literary criticism that applies the principles of cognitive science, particularly cognitive psychology, to the interpretation of literary texts. It has ties to reader-response criticism, and also has a grounding in modern principles of cognitive linguistics. The research and focus on cognitive poetics paves way ...
Alliterative verse. The Old English epic poem Beowulf is written in alliterative verse. In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal device to indicate the underlying metrical structure, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme. [1] The most commonly studied traditions of alliterative verse are ...
Clanging (or clang associations) is a symptom of mental disorders, primarily found in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. [1] This symptom is also referred to as association chaining, and sometimes, glossomania. Steuber defines it as "repeating chains of words that are associated semantically or phonetically with no relevant ...
Hamartia is a morally neutral non-normative term, derived from the verb hamartanein, meaning 'to miss the mark', 'to fall short of an objective'. And by extension: to reach one destination rather than the intended one; to make a mistake, not in the sense of a moral failure, but in the nonjudgmental sense of taking one thing for another, taking ...
Literary consonance. For musical consonance, see Consonance and dissonance. Consonance is a form of rhyme involving the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different (e.g., co m ing ho m e, ho t foo t). [ 1 ] Consonance may be regarded as the counterpart to the vowel-sound repetition known ...