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Literature EOY - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Metaphor (He was a tiger) Indirect comparison between two things
      - Personification -> Human qualities, can have effect of giving the subject agency
      - Simile -> As fast as a lion, also shows comparision, direct comparision between two things
      - Hyperbole -> exaggerates and overrstates something so as to emphasise the particular importance of something.
    - - Contrast -> Highlights the striking didffeerence between X and Y
      - Repetition -> used to create emphasis
      - Listing -> EITHER creates an overwhelming effect, or makes something seem boring
      - Parallel -> Also draws similarity between two
      - Irony -> Expectation vs reality.
      - Polysyndenton: a and b and c and d and e and f and .....
    - - Visual: things that you see (Colours, shapes)
      - Audial: things that you hear (Sounds)
      - Tactile: things that you feel (textures of objects most of the time)
      - Olfactory: things that you smell. refers of odours most of the time
      - Gustatory: Sense of taste
  - - - Enjambment (run on lines): When a line just breaks in the middle of the sentence with no grammatical punctuations in between Speeds up the pace of the poem
      - End stopped line Worth analysing When a line ends with a full stop. creates a sense of finality, forcing the reader to stop and ponder
      - Caesura: Grammatical pause of break in the line, typically towards the middle (such as a period or comma). slows down the pace of the poem, also forcing the reader to ponderr
    - - Long vowel sounds, sleekness and grandness
      - Short vowel sounds: Particular sense of rhythm
      - Alliteration: the repetition of certain consonant sounds -> Heighthens each individual particular effect of the vowel sounds
        
        Some of the common consonant sounds that are repeated
        
        Plosive sound : b and p. Booming effect, overexaggerated
        
        Fricative sounds: f and v. Note that there are hard fricatives, and soft fricatives
        
        rolling sounds: r Used in war poetry to mimic the sound of guns
        
        Sibilant sounds: s Sleekness and sinister
        
        Liquid sounds: l. Smooth and elegant
        
        Nasal sounds n and m. Nasal
        
        gutteral sounds: g and k. Harsh and primal sounds
      - Assonance -> repetition of certain vowel sounds. Also heightens the particular effect of said vowel sounds (I believe)