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Literary Devices
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Part One of Literary Devices
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A short verbal accounting of a funny, amusing,interesting event or incident.
Short Story
Tale
Anecdote
Antithesis
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Used to suggest to the reader an upcoming event or outcometo the story.
Allegory
Foreshadowing
Flashback
Archetype
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When the writer employs two sentences ofcontrasting meanings in close proximity to one another
Antithesis
Compare
Contrast
Allegory
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Theuse of informal expressions appropriate to everyday speech rather than toformal writing.
Diction
Colloquialism
Euphemism
Analogy
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Where the intended meaning of thewords used is the opposite of their normal or apparent meaning
Euphemism
Irony
Satire
Motif
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When words are used in quick succession and beginwith letters belonging to the same sound group
Allegory
Cacophony
Alliteration
Analogy
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A story/visual image with a second distinctmeaning partially hidden behind its literal meaning.
Personification
Alliteration
Allegory
Analogy