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The Learn All Literary Devices Poem

Acronym, accumulation,
anacoluth, allusion, alliteration,
analogue, adynaton,
anecdote, asyndeton.

Anadiplosis, antiphrasis,
antanaclasis, antithesis,
acrostic, aside, anesis,
analogy, aposiopesis.

Anastrophe, apostrophe,
anthimeria, allegory
atonomasia, amphiboly,
amblysia, antimetabole.

Anachronism, anaphora,
aphorism, antipophora,
anthropomorphism, aphorism
archetype, archaism.

Blank verse, black comedy,
blazon, burlesque, cacophony,
bombast, bathos, congeries,
dysphemism, dramatic irony!

Caesura, catharsis,
catachresis, catalexis,
conceit, consonance,
couplet, chiasmus.

Colloquialism, connotation,
circumlocution, denotation,
double entendre, depitation,
dissonance, defamiliarisation.

Ecphonema, ellipsis,
epanados, epanalepsis,
enjambment, ekphrasis,
epexegesis, epitasis.

Elision, elegy,
epizeuxis, euphony,
euphemism, epistrophe,
epideictic oratory.

Exposition, free-verse, flyting,
feminine rhyme, farce, foreshadowing,
hamartia, hemistich, hendiadys,
homonym, homophone, hubris.

Flashback, hypallage, hypotyposis,
hyperbaton, hypocorism, hypozeuxis,
hypostatisation, frame story,
hyperbole, imagery.

In medias res, idiom, inversion,
invocation, invective, irony, isocolon,
jargon, juxtaposition, light rhyme,
kenning, litotes, malapropism, masculine rhyme.

Melodrama, meter, metalepsis,
metaphor, metonymy, meiosis,
monologue, motif, mythopoeia,
neologism, nonce-word, onomatopoeia.

Oxymoron, paradox, palilogy,
parallelism, non-sequitur, pathetic fallacy,
paronomasia, parataxis, paralipsis,
personification, periphrasis, parenthesis.

Platitude, polysyndeton,
portmanteau, polyptoton,
prodiorthosis, prolepsis,
rhetorical question?

Rhyme, rhythm, repetition, symbolism, repartee,
synaesthesia, stichomythia, soliloquy, simile,
sentence structure, stream of
consciousness, syncope, synecdoche.

Tone, tragic comedy, tmesis, topothesia,
tapinosis, theme,
verisimilitude,
voice, zeugma.
Written by arortiz73 (MTP)
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Author's Note
This is my attempt at listing all the literary devices in English Literature. Of course, since I'm me I had to pseudo-alphabetize it and put it in concise rhythm and rhyme scheme. No, this wasn't written by ChatGPT or AI. Enjoy.
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