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CLEP Literary Techniques
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1. A technique in which one understanding of a situation stands in sharp contrast to another - usually more prevalent - understanding of the same situation.

2. The use of specific types of words - phrases - or literary structures that are not common in contemporary speech or prose.

3. The liberty that authors sometimes take with ordinary rules of syntax and grammar - employing unusual vocabulary - metrical devices - or figures of speech or committing factual errors in order to strengthen a passage of writing.

4. A form of wordplay that displays cleverness or ingenuity with language.

5. An implicit reference within a literary work to a historical or literary person - place - or event.

6. A wide-ranging technique of detachment that draws awareness to the discrepancy between words and their meanings - between expectation and fulfillment - or - most generally - between what is and what seems to be.

7. The perception of fate or the universe as malicious or indifferent to human suffering - which creates a painful contrast between our purposeful activity and its ultimate meaninglessness.

8. A sudden - powerful - and often spiritual or life changing realization that a character reaches in an otherwise ordinary or everyday moment.

9. The use of sentimentality - gushing emotion - or sensational action or plot twists to provoke audience or reader response.

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