What is foreshadowing?

An indication of a future event

What is the definition of simile?

comparing two things using like or as

What is the definition of personification??

give animals or inanimate object human like characteristics.

a sudden and disturbing vivid memory of an event in the past

A word or phrase that was once fresh but has become overused

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Literary Devices #1

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English Language Arts 11th grade

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What is an idiom??
an expression of whose meaning is not predictable.
the meaning that uses "like or as"
the meaning that uses "pow, boom" etc.
the word that uses exaggerations.
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I've asked you a million times to stop talking!
hyperbole
assonance
metaphor
onomatopoeia
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What is symbolism?
section of a poem, usually with rhyme and length
words that have the same sound at the end
deeper meaning given to everyday objects or events
words that create a mental image
4
What is foreshadowing?
An indication of a future event
Words or phrases that aren’t meant to be taken literally
Comparing two things using like or as
An indirect reference
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What is the definition of simile?
gives personal pronouns to inanimate objects
sudden story turn around
comparing two things using like or as
describing something to provide you with an image
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Repetition of the same consonant sound anywhere in 2 or more words of the same line.
allusion
consonance
assonance
alliteration
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Writers weave their witty, wonderful words into webs.
consonance
allusion
assonance
alliteration
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Simile or Metaphor?
Simile
Metaphor
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What is the definition of personification??
it makes the people of the society feel really thankful
it makes all the animals that are locked up in cages free.
it gives anything food.
give animals or inanimate object human like characteristics.
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Repetition of the same vowel sound anywhere in 2 or more words of the same line.
alliteration
assonance
consonance
allusion
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Purposely downplaying the importance or intensity of something.
hyperbole
understatement
anaphora
connotation
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Choose the oxymoron:
I am nobody.
Best of all time
Between jobs
Awfully lucky
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My friend's bakery burned down last night. Now his business is toast.
personification
prose
paradox
pun
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The emotional association/meaning of a word:
symbolism
denotation
connotation
consonance
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What is a flashback?
To talk about something in the past
a sudden and disturbing vivid memory of an event in the past
An occurrence to go back in time.
Time travel
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Two usually contradictory words not normally put together, but that still make sense.
antithesis
contrast
juxtaposition
oxymoron
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What is a cliche?
A reference to a well known thing or figure of speech,
A word or phrase that was once fresh but has become overused
A type of metaphor giving human characteristics to objects..
A figure of speech that cannot be defined literally.

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