Literary Devices: How to Use Literary Elements to Improve Writing
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- Ready to take your writing to the next level? Literary devices are a way to transform your writing completely. Think of them as a tool to add different types of tone, texture, and meaning to your manuscript.
Not only can literary devices give you tools to create better stories, but when you implement them intentionally, you become a much better writer.
Your writing will carry a new level of depth, and although your readers may not know what’s better about your writing, they’re likely to connect with your stories that much more.
In this video, we break down a list of literary devices you can use to make your writing significantly better. Whether you want clarity between the word ALLUSION and ILLUSION or need a refresher on what precisely juxtaposition is, this video walks you through the process.
Once you understand two or three literary techniques, try implementing them into your next story!
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0:00 Introduction
0:55 TOP 15
1:10 Allusion
4:17 Alliteration
5:03 Allegory
5:52 #5 Colloquialism
6:31 Euphemism
7:52 Flashbacks
8:58 Foreshadowing
10:25 Imagery
10:52 Personification
12:02 Juxtaposition
13:47 Metaphor/Simile
14:47 #13 Onomatopoeia
15:04 Onomatopoeia Literary Device Example
15:46 Symbolism Literary Device Example
16:11 Tone
1. Allusion 1:10
2. Diction: 2:04
2. Alliteration 4:17
4. Allegory 5:04
5. Colloquialism 5:52
6. Euphemism 6:33
7. Flashbacks 7:52
8. Foreshadowing 8:58
9. Imagery 10:26
10. Personification 10:52
11. Juxtaposition 12:01
12. Metaphor/Simile 13:47
13. Onomatopoeia 14:47
14. Symbolism 15:21
15. Tone 16:11
Thx your a chad
thank you for this !
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Thx
Watching this 2 hours before English exam
Lol
20 minutes for me
5 minutes 💀
How'd it go
BAD DR!
I like how I get passionate in studying only before the exams all the time;)
ohmygod the glitch at 0:31 had my heart racing. i thought i broke my iPad
seventeen Sebong same
Glad to know that the glitch is on the video waah
Same lol
omg omg I was moving my laptop and the glitch went off and I started panicking
Same
Watching this because no matter how many times I analyze a poem or short story I struggle to pick out literary devices
Same here
Watching this for the AP Lit exam tomorrow lol
erravii same good luck
Same
Shii... same
You talk too fast
I hope you studied something else, too....
Am I the only one that isn't watching this because of an exam?
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Yes
Nope! I'm watching it for an honors project.
No 95 percent of the viewers are like you me included.
I am too
Timestamps:
0:14 *What are Literary Devices?*
1:06 *Allusion*
2:03 *Diction*
4:16 *Alliteration*
5:01 *Allegory*
5:50 *Colloquialism*
6:30 *Euphemism*
7:50 *Flashbacks*
8:57 *Foreshadowing*
10:23 *Imagery*
10:50 *Personification*
12:00 *Juxtaposition*
13:45 *Metaphor/Simile*
14:45 *Onomatopoeia*
15:20 *Symbolism*
16:10 *Tone*
Ty
Damn, really needed this refresher to get out of a writing slump
this helps so much! I can write my final English exam (in Germany) with a much better feeling. thank you.
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hi self publishing school...nice video..really appreciate it (:
lmao having literature test tmr and im just cramping everything in my head now
How'd it go?
@@thetongueofangels1882 well i did ok :)
So helpful. You explained all the devices so well!
Wonderful stuff! Thank you. Okay, so you asked at the end what our favorite uses of literary devices are. I have several examples of ones I love from books I love (movies too--the killer personification being "I'm Batman.") Another favorite is a sentence, an elaborate bit of alliterative "formal" diction (using vowels instead of consonants to establish rhythm). It describes someone's reaction to the sound of a cathedral bell, from the perspective of a person under the influence of opium, and it's at the very beginning of Dickens' unfinished detective novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The book first poses this question: "is the cathedral really there?" My best friend and I memorized the sentence that follows when we were about sixteen, and we used to recite it to one another, very slowly, at appropriate (& inappropriate!) moments: "Some vague period of drowsy laughter must be devoted to the consideration of this possibility."
gained a new sub! love the content:))
I particularly love oronyms which are word bridging homophones and I've noticed how l can use them to subconsciously convey a secondary meaning.
I am writing my own novel and this video has helped me well. Concise and good summary of all the devices and with good examples. I enjoyed it. Others complain about the pacing, but hey we have a pause button!
Agreed!
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Wonderful - Thank you. Using for Homeschool
perfect video! Thank you!
Really really helpful !💚
Thank you very much,i understand now.😊
Thank you very much, this help.
Got English JCE (aka checkpoint) tomorrow.
I am watching this for my test thank you very much.
Great information! Thank you.
this person teaches things i would like to teach if i was a teacher
Literature is in tough shape when 99 percent of comments on any given literature vid (including audiobooks of the Western canon) are something like "test tomorrow you saved my life"
Good for writers who don't suck, bad for that writer's readership
A really useful video that I will be recommending to my GCSE students
Thank you! Glad to hear it was helpful!
Love your content!
My exams are from tmrw wish me luck guys
you saved MY LIFE!!!!!!
How can we apply literary devices on any novel?
Hi from Brasil. Thanks so much!!
This is very interesting.. one of these styles mentioned kinda relates or maybe influenced the way I learn things. I can retain more if I hear situations played out. And then understand the moral of the subject...? That’s wild&werid
2 hours before my english exam, hopefully poetry goes well!
Watching this for AP Lit exam
imagery is my favorite. most definitely helpful since my novel is in the works.
I’m watching this before tomorrow’s exam ;)
Lit exam soon but i found it helpfull💯🔥🔥🔥
I enjoy metaphors the most for some reason.
Great video, Bella!
Greaaaat lesson
Are flashbacks an example of a literary device?
Ignore this comment.
My understandings:
1. Allusion: Basically a *reference.*
Example:
"He looks like _Keeanu Reeves_ and _Jesus Christ."_
2. Diction: Choice of words/word style
(I know this has many diffent types of diction)
Examples:
Formal Diciton
"I will ameliorate myself."
Informal diction
"I shall improve my linguistics skills.
3. Alliteration: similar consonants
"The hot pot has a hot top hat."
4. Allegory: I didn't completely understand what this meant.
but i guess "a story within a story"
idk.
5. Colloquialism: it's like a different culture word style.
Example:
"Oi bruv, wot ye lookin' at, ye?"
6. Euphemism: alternative words/phrases (to avoid actual term(s) or indecent word(s).
Example:
"Frick you."
7. Flashbacks: past memory
-plot decvice that goes back in time for a specific scene
•has to be intentional
8. Foreshadowing: hints or clues?
-plot device that is giving hints or clues that will in the future
9. Imagery: use of visually descriptive or figurative language
•creates an image for the readers mind
(this clip was so short.)
10. Personification:
-figurative language that _gives_ human-like characteristics to non-human things
11. Juxtaposition:
contrasting elements next to each others to amplify themselves
(i didn't get this completely but okay)
12. Metaphor/Simile
Metaphor
"He is Jesus Christ." (He isn't, he looks like it.)
Simile
"He is like Keeanu Reeves."
13. Onomatopoeia
Word that describes a sound, or that represents a sound, they are italicized.
"Bees sounds like buzzzzzzz"
BANG! (A sound for a gun)
14. Symbolism: as the name suggests, it is literary device that uses a specific element to symbolize more drastic and bigger
"The number 7 is a lucky number."
(couldn't understand it completely.)
15. Tone
Literary device that uses when a narrator's thoughts, feelings or opinions about what's going on.
(couldn't get simplify and understand it completely.)
thank you and i luv the way u explained it
Are they also called Stylistic devices?
instead of doing this you can do top 10 literary devices to use
a metaphor is not intended to help a reader understand something better.. its definition and intention is the antithesis of that. a metaphor is a figure of speech that is abstract and intended to be creative and sometimes symbolic
How about the paradox?
My whole class is watching this rn lol
Hi, after hearing this, could you pls clarify whats the difference between juxtaposition and oxymoron?
What's the similarity? Juxtaposition is putting two things together to compare or contrast. This could be entire scenes or points of view in a story. Oxymoron is an ironic word pair: jumbo shrimp, military intelligence, old news, freezer burn, etc.
My ap lit teacher was subscribed to this channel. And the fact that you guys cited Vicious is making me feel too many things. Like….that’s a tumblr sexy man book oml 😅
Thanks
very very very very helpful ...help me pass dp1 English...thnx a lot
That spider really scared me. I was looking someone else and suddenly it came out of nowhere 😂😂
My daughter watched this is will help her with school
btw you are so professional
Thanks for this video. I think I should do a video like this in my channel
U seem nice u have a nice soothing voice...
Great clarity, v enjoyable - was shocked that a piece I wrote on a graveyard was very similar in imagery to the example that popped up. Well, that's my work cut out - originality is key!
How u get blank background?
Magic
Green screen maybe
watching this for my final exam due in 12 hours
was it just me who saw the black stuff on screen for one second 0:31 ( keep playing )
Thank you so much
Glad it was helpful!
Confused by the different between a colloquium and slag diction . I don't know the difference
slang is more focused on made-up language typically used by certain groups of people. An example of slang would be: "on fleek" or "cap". Colloquialisms are more informal phrases or words known by a larger population, less about the word and more about the style of being informal (however, slang CAN be included in this). examples of colloquialism are: "gonna" meaning "going to", "be blue" meaning "to be sad", etc. You can see more examples here: self-publishingschool.com/literary-devices/#colloquialism
Someone put benchmarks
Got an exam tomorrow lol
nice
bro whatching this 3mins before English exam
1:47 that's more of an eponym rather than an allusion.
good
Im not gonna write a novel but ım here becouse ı have an engilish exam and ım no a native speaker I’m Turk in a Turkish school but still ı have to learn all of these😭
Me watching this before my English exam in 2 days.
"Basically"....
I’m just watching this because my mom made me to
Best literary devices you've never heard of? Synecdoche and metonymy. Those will take your prose up a notch.
watching this video und I have exam tomorrow lol 😂
Watching this for an essay thats due in 5 hours
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Can you please help me with the literary devices in the text above?
My favourite is euphemism because it’s fun to tell things to my friends without anyone else knowing what we mean
I did colloquial ism 5 times fast
Watching 5 minutes after finishing my 🙈 paper and 😅 i missed a lot
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I played the video at 0.25x and still couldn't pause at the glitch in 0:31
I was at number two and realised she was just making puns of real words... like diction...
but a good video nonetheless!
0:31 camera hate yall or something
watched this cuz I wanted techineques to refer to to my anylizing text of animal farm
Stuck watching this vid for English
My exam is starting in 2hrs🥲
Holiday homework...
Ok hi I like to talk so sorry if my chats are too much
You would look greater against
a salmon pink or gunmetal blue
Background ♥
I am going to do exam today 😂😂
Went here in the comment section just to check if the glitch at 0:31 is on the video or it is really on my phone yeah
Same
Thanks alot
I’m so confused
Anyone here from Mrs. Milbrandt’s class?
nah
no❤️
No
WRITE IN THE VIDEOS WATH YOU ARE SAING OR WRITE IT BECAUSE FOR EXAMPLE I DONT NOW HOW SPEAK IN INGLISH AN I AM LEARNING AND IS DIFICULT TO ME UNDERSTAND
eeee, no mires estos videos si estas arrancando
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You're epic