Literary Devices- Beloved

Quiz over Literary Devices: 3/21 or 3/22. 

1. Elegy- a poem or literary work that laments the dead or a loss.
2. Parallelism- the repeated use of the same grammatical structure in a sentence or a series of sentences. Example: "For one lost, all lost" (p. 130, Beloved).
3. Anaphora- the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines to create a rhetorical and/or sound effect. Example "It went on that way and might have stayed that way but one evening..." (p. 135-137, Beloved). 
4. Euphemism- substitution of a harsh or offensive word with something less malicious.
5. Dialect- a particular kind of language particular to a group or region of people.

6. Allegory- a work that functions on a symbolic level. A work can be described as an "allegory of love" or other abstract concepts.
7. Personification- the attribution of human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object.
8. Catharsis- an emotional cleansing or feeling of relief produced through literature. In his Poetics, Aristotle wrote that tragedy especially should "arose pity and fear in such a way as to accomplish a catharsis of such emotions in the audience."
9. Pathos- the quality of a literary work or passage which appeals to the reader's emotions, especially pity, compassion, and sympathy.
10. Point of View- perspective of the speaker or narrator in a literary work.

• First person: the story is told by the character her/himself
• Third person limited: the story is told by a narrator who sees from one character's perspective
• Third person omniscient: the story is told by an all-knowing narrator