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A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means; the opposite of exaggeration. The last line of Frost's "Birches" illustrates this literary device: One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Industry:Literature
The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work.
Industry:Literature
A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole. An example: Lend me a hand. See Metonymy.
Industry:Literature
The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue. The organization of words and phrases and clauses in sentences of prose, verse, and dialogue
Industry:Literature
The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization."
Industry:Literature
A story that narrates strange happenings in a direct manner, without detailed descriptions of character.
Industry:Literature
A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though. An example: My love is like a red, red rose.
Industry:Literature
The way an author chooses words, arranges them in sentences or in lines of dialogue or verse, and develops ideas and actions with description, imagery, and other literary techniques. See Connotation, Denotation, Diction, Figurative language, Image, Imagery, Irony, Metaphor, Narrator, Point of view, Syntax, and Tone.
Industry:Literature
