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What's a book I can read that will teach me about literary devices like "catalogue", "metonymy", "allusion", and "synecdoche"? I know what those individual terms mean when it comes to literature, but I'd like a book that covers as many things like that as I'm able to learn about. I am looking for something that will help me notice literary styles in authors.

I tried reading Terry Eagleton's Literary Theory, but that's actually a book on the broader topic of actual "literary theory" which seems to border "critical theory" and has more of a sociological analysis of literature (bordering leftist deconstructions of literature along structuralist, Marxist, and feminist readings). This is not what I'm looking for.

Originally from my /wsr/ thread:
>>>/wsr/1262994

>> No.21024758

>>21024731
Wikipedia

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>>21024731
Found this helpful website that seems to be along the lines of what I'm looking for: https://literaryterms.net/ Interested in looking for more books/resources like this.

Joining a /wsr/ thread I made just so the information is shared:
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>> No.21025150

>>21024731
>live snake chains
Someone think of the sneks.

>> No.21025151

>>21024731
This was actually not meant to be a new thread, but a reply to a different context. I am not being given the opportunity to delete this thread.

>> No.21025167

>>21024731
Just for the record, this thread was made by mistake. I don't actually understand how this same post and this identical reply >>21025030 was posted here. I had no intention of starting a thread on this matter. Please let this thread die since I have no opportunity to delete it.

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>>21024731
Same author as the Trivium. Instruction in literary devices in the context of Shakespeare.

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Covers some literary devices and techniques in the context of classical writing. Worth reading for it's own sake, and fairly short in any case.

>> No.21025321

>>21025167
Why would you delete this thread if it’s /lit/ related.

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>>21024731
This is what you're looking for anon.

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>>21024731

>> No.21027388

>>21025150
nah

>> No.21027454

>>21025151
And yet it's the most non-spam, non-meme, actually /lit/ I've seen so far today. Good job

>> No.21027484

additionally to aesthetic and rhetoric dictionaries:
home-kames (cousin of hume) - elements of criticism
most examples are from shakespeare, simple as.