1. trope Literally means “turning.” Twisting, turning word/phrase to make it mean something else. Metaphor, simile, personification, metonymy and synecdoche are the five main tropes. Literary Devices - ONE

2. metonymy This is the use of word for an object/concept which is linked with the object/concept originally denoted by the word. tongue language Examples: sweat hard work the press news media

3. synecdoche A part is used to represent the whole. A car is referred to as “wheels” Examples: Hungry people are “mouths to feed” Sailors as “hands on deck” Let two more summers wither in their pride Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride - Lord Capulet from Romeo & Juliet referring to summers as “years” (speaking about Juliet)

4. allusion Indirect reference to a person, event, statement, history, art, religion, myth, popular culture. They enrich meaning and broaden the impact of a statement via connotation. “He had the patience of Job.” – Biblical allusion The Sound and the Fury – Literary allusion (the title of Faulkner’s novel alludes to a line from Shakespeare’s Macbeth) “He was a Benedict Arnold.” – Historical/biographical allusion

5. anachrony Technique of placing events out of chronological order. There are three types: - analepsis (flashback) - prolepsis (preview of future events) - ellipsis (gap in events/omitted chronological material).