Example of Literary Figures: Separation

The literary figures and their separation are the classification made of the tools and mechanisms used by the written language, especially literary language, thus with this separation the qualities of the literature.

The classification involves each of the specific phenomena and is mainly divided into two categories:

• Expression method
• Meaning

These categories obey the sense of the effect of each literary figure, which produces the in the literary figures the separation.

Example of literary figures Separation:

Separation of main categories and qualities

a) By mode of expression or form of diction

1. Allegory (arranged verses)
2. Alliteration (tongue twister)
3. Allusion (references)
4. Anastrophe
5. Assonance (pronunciation process, used in poetry)
6. Asyndeton (alters the meaning of the phrase)
7. Bildungsroman (type of narration that follows the character's journey)
8. Cacophony (Method of literary expression)
9. Characterization (process in which the character stands out)
10. Chiasmus (Mode of expression with two fractions or lines)
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11. Connotation
12. Consonance
13. Denotation (literary expression contrary to connotation)
14. Diction (proper expression of sentences)
15. Doppelganger (expression of German origin that denotes the duality of characters)
16. Ekphrástica (symbolic writing)
17. Euphony (use of pleasant and well-adjusted expressions)
18. Parallelism (proper and logical handling of ideas)
19. Retrospective (remembrance within literature)
20. Contrast (literary aspect in which the quality of a character is focused on another character)
21. Foreshadowing - presentiment (kind of premonition within literature)
22. Hubris (situation superior to arrogance, reaching the arrogance of the character)
23. Hyperbaton (Handling of sentences)
24. Hyperbole (sentences that you emphasize or exaggerate)
25. Images (application of imagination in literature, especially in descriptions)
26. Medium or internal rhyme (form of literary expression)
27. Inversion (change of conventional handling of words)
28. Irony (application in literary expression that expresses extremes)
29. Justaposition (Movement and alteration of literary resources)
30. Kenings (linguistic process of foreign origin)
31. Malapropism (literary and ironic modifications within a novel)

b) By meaning or thought

1. Amplification (expresses more meaning in expression)
2. Anagram (mix of words)
3. Analogy (expresses similarities between ideas)
4. Anthropomorphism (modifies thought and idea by adding human qualities)
5. Antithesis (creates contrasts with different effects)
6. Aphorism (proverbs and advice)
7. Archetype (reference to thoughts and things)
8. Author intrusion (conversation between the reader and the writer on the sidelines of the story)
9. Bibliomancy (process of basing everything on the Bible)
10. Cesura (expression that reflects the feeling or intention)
11. Circumloquium or periphrasis (mode of literary expression)
12. Conflict (dilemmas or disagreements)
13. Deus ex Machina (unexpected expression and process in a literary text)
14. Epilogue (alternate ending or post-ending situation)
15. Epithet (recognition of someone for his actions)
16. Euphemism (concept of exaggeration or step to a different process)
17. Metaphor (figure that expresses broader or different ideas within an idea, which helps to better understand)
18. Metonymy (handling of unusual words for a concept)
19. Mood (refers to the thought and feeling of the protagonist and his characters)