english lit tequniques

• dramatic irony is when the audience knows something the charactars do not
• connotations is when a word links to another word
• a mouth peice is when a character is used to present the authors view
• a foil is a character that makes another character look better / worst
• a proxy is a character who takes on another characters role
• a motif is symbolism that comes up though out text ( eg theme of responsibility in inspector calls)
• cynical structure is when something starts and ends the same way
• a soliloquy is when shakespeare characters speak their thoughts outloud
• a protagonist is the hero of a story
• a antagonist is the villain the story
• proletic irony is when a charactar does or says something and does not know all the facts
• chaismus is same thing said backwards
• litotes is a under exagerration
• sibalince is aliteration of sound "s"
• rule of three is listing three things
• onomatopei is word sounding like noise
• polysydenton is the use of repeated conjuctives
• allegory is when whole play / poem symbolises something bigger