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The document defines and provides examples of 15 different literary devices: local color/regional literature, repetition, rhyme, rhythm, flashback, foreshadowing, dream sequence, in medias res, stream of consciousness, juxtaposition, symbolism, soliloquy, deus ex machina, poetic justice, and imagery. Examples of works that demonstrate each device are also included.

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Local Color

The document defines and provides examples of 15 different literary devices: local color/regional literature, repetition, rhyme, rhythm, flashback, foreshadowing, dream sequence, in medias res, stream of consciousness, juxtaposition, symbolism, soliloquy, deus ex machina, poetic justice, and imagery. Examples of works that demonstrate each device are also included.

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) Local color or regional literature is fiction and


poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect,
customs, topography, and other features particular
to a specific region.
Example:
Main Street, short story by Sinclair Lewis

2.) Repetition is a literary device that repeats the


same words or phrases a few times to make an idea
clearer.
Example:
Bullet to the Brain by Tobias Wolff

3.) Rhyme is a popular literary device in which the


repetition of the same or similar sounds occurs in
two or more words, usually at the end of lines in
poems or songs.
Example:
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (By Robert
Frost)

4.) In literature, rhythm is the pattern of stressed and


unstressed beats.
Example:
Tiger by William Blake
Song by Sir John Suckling

5.) In literature, a flashback is an occurrence in which


a character remembers an earlier event that happened
before the current point of the story.

Example:
Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman

6.) Foreshadowing is a literary device in which the


author gives clues about events that will happen
later in the story.
Example:
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

7.) A dream sequence is a technique used in


storytelling, particularly in television and film,
to set apart a brief interlude from the main story.
Example:
Alices Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis
Carroll

8.) In literature, in medias res is Latin for "into the


middle of things." It usually describes a narrative
that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but
somewhere in the middle usually at some crucial
point in the action.
Example:
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

9.) In literature, stream of consciousness is a method


of narration that describes in words the flow of
thoughts in the minds of the characters.
Example:
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

10.) As a literary technique, the juxtaposition


definition is to place two concepts, characters,
ideas, or places near or next to each other so that
the reader will compare and contrast them.
Example:
John Miltons Paradise Lost

11.) When used as a literary device, symbolism means to


imbue objects with a certain meaning that is
different from their original meaning or function.
Example:
Ah Sunflower, a poem by William Blake

12.) A soliloquy is a super important monologue given by


a character in a play who is alone on the stage.
Example:
The Crucible by Arthur Miller

13.) The literary device of deus ex machina means to


solve a seemingly intractable problem in a plot by
adding in an unexpected character, object, or
situation.
Example:
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

14.) In literature, poetic justice is an ideal form of


justice in which the good characters are rewarded
and the bad characters are punished by an ironic
twist of their fate.
Example:
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

15.) As a literary device, imagery consists of


descriptive language that can function as a way for
the reader to better imagine the world of the piece
of literature and also add symbolism to the work.
Imagery draws on the five senses, namely the details
of taste, touch, sight, smell, and sound.
Example:
'My Papa's Walt, Theodore Roethke's famous poem

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