Literary Terms & Devices

What is language technique?

Language techniques are the elements that a writer brings to his or her story to emphasize the theme on which they are focusing. It plays an important factor in writing an essay or story.

Language techniques and elements can be found anywhere in the story. As a result, it helps a student to understand a story, poem, essay, or novel in a better way.

Language techniques and their effects

Language technique helps you to score well in your writing. If you have a deep understanding of language techniques, then you can score well. For this, you need to understand language techniques deeply.

Language techniques and their effects help you to understand the following principal factors:

1. How writers gain impact in their writing.

2. to use various features in your writing (creative and transactional, as well as for your oral presentations) to craft your writing and gain impact.

3. to help you achieve unit standards which require you to explore language and think critically about poetic/transactional/oral texts.

Written English Language techniques

1. Imperative

2. Minor sentences

3. Idioms

4. Proverb

5. Simple sentences

6. Slang

7. Slogan

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What is a literary device?

Commonly, the term Literary Devices refers to the typical structures used by writers in their works to convey his or her message(s) in a simple manner to his or her readers. When employed properly, the different literary devices help readers to appreciate, interpret and analyse a literary work.

There are two main parts of Literary devices:

1. Literary Elements

2. Literary Techniques

Common Literary Elements

Plot: The logical sequence of events that develop a story.

Setting: It refers to the time and place in which a story takes place.

Protagonist: It is the main character of story, novel or a play e.g. Hamlet in the play Hamlet

Antagonist: It is the character in conflict with the Protagonist e.g. Claudius in the play Hamlet

Narrator: A person who tells the story.

Narrative method: The manner in which a narrative is presented comprising plot and setting.

Dialogue: Where characters of a narrative speak to one another.

Conflict: It is an issue in a narrative. The whole story revolves around this.

Mood: A general atmosphere of a narrative.

Theme: It is central idea or concept of a story.

Literary Techniques, on the contrary, are structures usually are words or phrases used in literary texts. A writer uses this to achieve not only artistic ends but also readers understanding and appreciation of their literary works.

Examples are metaphor, simile, alliteration, hyperbole, allegory, etc. In contrast to Literary Elements, Literary Techniques are a major aspect of literary works.

What are Persuasive Techniques?

Persuasive Techniques is presenting reasons and examples to influence action or thought. Effective persuasive writing requires a writer to state clearly an opinion and to supply reasons and specific examples that support the opinion.

We have discussed the different persuasive techniques in our another blog post.

First of all, we should know what language analysis technique is?

Language analysis technique: It means that how the writer conveys meaning through language techniques, such as figures of speech, sentence structure, tone and word choice.

Common language analysis techniques are:

1. Rhetorical Question

2. Statistics

3. Expert Opinion

4. Inclusive language

5. Emotive language