Relevance of Language Features in Literature

 

         

Language features enable us to communicate our thoughts in different formats, from formal to poetry. Each language has its own set of styles, tones, and characteristics.  With the aid of the language feature, readers can easily distinguish between various writing styles and language approaches and comprehend what the person has to say.

Characteristics of language feature

 Flexible

Flexibility is the key function of these features. For example, nouns and verbs can be used simultaneously. Any words can be changed in the function, therefore making it easier for non-natives to read.

 Adopted Vocabulary

Adopting words without changing their meaning affects readers' pronunciation or understanding of tales. Until the present, words from 350 other languages have entered English. Readers are introduced to new vocabulary.

 Critical Evaluation

Language features develop the practice of critical evaluation of complex contexts among readers. Readers get engaged in finding hypotheses.

 Active listening

This is an interpersonal skill that entails the attempt of grasping the meaning and purpose of what the opposite person has to say.

 Types of Language features

 Adjective

An adjective is a word that modifies nouns or pronouns. Adjectives provide the reader with more detailed information about an object's colour, size, shape, substance, and other characteristics. Increase the specificity and clarity of your writing, allowing you to present your thoughts clearly and engagingly.

Types of adjectives

A descriptive adjective

is a term utilized to directly describe another word. A descriptive adjective can also be a participial verb that also functions as an adjective.

 A compound descriptive adjective indicates that it expresses only one notion.

Example: He is a good boy, she plays cricket, and the house is painted red.

 A comparative adjective 

It is a term that both describes and compares a noun. The number of syllables and the conclusion of the word is vital in forming comparison adjectives.

Example: Mike is funnier than Elle.

 A superlative adjective 

Expresses that a word has reached its highest extreme degree in a certain context, either positively or negatively. 

Example: big-bigger-biggest, small-smaller-smallest.

 Predicate adjectives

Subject complements are predicate adjectives. that change or characterise a sentence's or clause's subject and are linked to the subject by a connecting verb.

Example: to seem. to be.

 A compound adjective

It is made up of many separate words. The words are separated by a hyphen or hyphen when used as an adjective.

Example: well-known, well-written.

 A possessive adjective

It indicates who owns or has possession of something.

Example: I, me, her hand, my cloth.

 Demonstrative adjectives 

Used to indicate something's physical position with the presenter.

Example: this, that.

 Proper adjectives 

These are words that enhance other nouns, such as a person's name or religion.

Example: Shakespeare, Australian.

 A limited adjective 

 One that does not convey any descriptive information about a noun.

Example: limited, some.

An attributive adjective 

These attribute certain traits to the person, place, or thing indicated by the noun that comes before a sentence.

Examples; Pretty sky, and Wild rose.

 

Allegory

 Allegory permits writers to distinguish themselves from the topic written, especially when those subjects portray critiques of political or cultural reality. There are three types of allegories are,

Example: Plato's Cave

 

• Biblical allegory uses motifs from the Bible to portray the conflict between good and evil.
• Modern allegory contains allegorical interpretations of works that were not necessarily meant that way.
• Classical allegory employs symbolic depictions of how humans live in the world.

 

Alliteration

Alliteration occurs when a series of words beginning with the same sound appears again in a phrase or sentence. 

Example: Harry Hurried Home

 

Allusion

An author uses allusion to enrich the readers’ knowledge about their work, based on person, figure, location, or event.

Example: Arrow of love, Herculean effort.

 Analogy

An analogy is used to describe a new notion. Using an analogy to relate his concept to something familiar can benefit the reader.

Example: Life is a Shadow (Macbeth).

 Anaphora

Anaphora has an impact on both style and substance. It is a literary technique that may accentuate meaning, add a sentiment, and establish a sense of rhythm.

Example: we shall, it was.

 Antithesis

An antithesis is a rhetorical and literary strategy that produces a nearly full contrast in ideas or characters using parallel grammatical structure.

Example: no pain, no gain.

 Assonance 

Most commonly associated with the repeating of internal vowel sounds in words that do not terminate in the same way.

Example: Dumb luck, chips and dips.

 Emotive language

It affects the way of writing with the use of certain words different words are for different causes.

Example: Violated Underage.

 Dramatic irony

Dramatic irony is portrayed through the framework of a work: the characters' actions and words, therefore, it carries a different contradictory meaning for the public than they do for the characters in the work. It is sometimes associated with tragic irony.

Example: In a horror film, a girl flees to the same closet where the evil guy is hiding.

 Euphemism

A euphemism is a moderate and inoffensive word or phrase used in place of something potentially offensive or displeasing. In advertising, euphemisms are quite frequent.

Example:  Passed away instead of dying.

 Homonym

A homonym is a word that sounds similar to another word but differs in meaning and its nature.

Example: right and wright.

 Imagery

Imagery employs vivid description that appeals to a reader's senses to conjure up a picture or concept in their minds to depict the thrilling and emotional experience contained inside the text.

 Hyperbole

In literature, rhetoric, and ordinary speech, hyperbole is utilized. for creative writing and communication, particularly when adding colour to a character or comedy to a tale.

Example: The game is taking a long time

                 The game is taking forever(hyperbole).

 Mood and tone

The tone is the atmosphere that the author set in the story whereas the mood is that which readers get while reading the story.

Example: cautious(tone) and Hopeful(mood).

 Litotes

Litotes is a figure of speech that uses critical words to communicate a positive declaration or remark.

Example: That lesson is not hard.

 Metaphor

Metaphor is a Greek term that means "to carry across." Metaphors enable us to make new connections and so express more meaning. Metaphors can also teach us that one item is a metaphor for another

Example: Life is Monopoly.

 Oxymoron

An oxymoron is a literary device that writers might employ to produce a humorous tone or to add a dramatic impact.

Example: Awfully good.

 Pathos

Pathos is an emotional appeal made to an audience to elicit emotion. Pathos, along with ethos and logos is one of the three major forms of persuasion.

Example: we've made memories.

Satire

Exaggeration, irony, comedy, or mockery are employed in satire to critique and reveal faults in human behaviour and conduct. There are three types of satire

Horatian

Juvenalian Satire

Menippean satire

Example: Animal Farm by George Orwell.

Zeugma

By using zeugma in writing, the author generates a stylistic impact that makes the article more fascinating to the reader. It links together apparently unrelated terms by merging words and phrases with a common phrase.

Example: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

 Pun

Puns are frequently used in writing to provide comedy. an unanticipated, underlying joke—to amuse astute readers

example: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

 Symbolism

Pictographs and hieroglyphics, the oldest documented forms of human storytelling, are essentially symbols signifying more complicated narratives or ideas. Symbols are abstract concepts that symbolize something other than their literal meaning.

Example:  Dogs often stand for loyalty.

 

How does structure language Feature in literature?

Form refers to how a piece of text is written, such as a book, short story, play, dramatic monologue, or sonnet. The genre in which a work is composed is also incorporated into its form. The structure is how the story, or even just words, are created; hence, items to examine include the text's chronology, or from whose viewpoint the book is written. Language is defined as the vocabulary employed in a text. 

 

 Sentence Structure

A simple sentence typically consists of a single phrase, a subject, and a verb. 

 Sentence Compounding

A compound sentence is often made up of two separate clauses joined together by a conjunction.

 Sentence Complication

Meanwhile, a complex is made up of one or more sentence fragments.

 Repetition

As the name suggests, repetition entails repeating a phrase or word.

 Punctuation 

Commonly utilised to illustrate the meanings of various texts. It mostly clarifies the meaning of the text by splitting phrases, words, links, or clauses.

 Juxtaposition

A juxtaposition usually involves the placement of at least two concepts, locations, personalities, and their roles adjacent to one other. A juxtaposition can also be seen in a sonnet or a tale to help generate complexity and analyses.

 Listing

A listing is generally used when the author wants to emphasize a point that the audience is already familiar with.

 Timeline

Chronology is the organization of events in chronological order. Furthermore, in literature, authors use the timeline to describe events in a certain plot.

 Links

Link is a structural strategy used to connect the beginning and finish of a text during narration.

How to Use Literary Devices?

 Write Naturally

When you write, you're employing literary/rhetorical techniques, which are so common in ordinary speech that they find their way into our writing as well.

 Take your time reading

As you become more adept at identifying literary techniques, consider how the author employs a variety of tactics to enhance the overall impact of the tale or poem.

 Individual strategies should be learned.

Each literary device has its own set of advantages and disadvantages. Every week try to learn a new approach and implement it into your daily writing.

 

Authors Bio: This article is written by Mark Edmonds, an eminent writer in the team of UK-based company Academic Assignments. He is passionate about helping young students, and businesses with assignment help on various subjects. His assignments have helped many to grow their career and students gain brilliant academic grades.