by Zoe M. McCarthy | May 25, 2017 | Writing
Faulty Parallelism Parallelism is the literary device. Faulty parallelism occurs when the device takes a wayward turn from the parallel structure or format in listing or pairing items. The writer begins his sentence with two or more similarly related words or phrases....
by Zoe M. McCarthy | May 18, 2017 | Writing
Authorial Intrusion as a Literary Device In authorial intrusion, the author directly addresses the reader, intending to build a relationship with the reader on some level. This literary device was popular until the 20th century. The movie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | May 11, 2017 | Writing
Circumlocution Writing that expresses something in a roundabout or indirect way, using many unnecessary words. Circumlocution can be understandable or unintelligible. Example A large portion of the class grabbed a goodly number of the assignments, far and beyond what...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | May 4, 2017 | Writing
First, let’s look at syndeton and the examples we’re most familiar with. Syndeton Syndeton is the coordination of elements in a sentence, generally with a conjunction, such as and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet. The conjunctions can be used between words, phrases, and...