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Prose literary devices
“Oh! What fine luck I have!” is ...
“he's definitely not a rocket scientist.”
Prose literary devices
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“he's definitely not a rocket scientist.”
euphemism
antithesis
litotes
hyperbole
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“Oh! What fine luck I have!” is ...
inversion
a satire
an antithesis
Irony
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asyndeton
blue or purple or green
eat and sleep and shower
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
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"the earth and the hours and the days of it and the year" is a ...
polysyndeton
polygon
polysindeton
enumeration
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concept/person/object that serves as a prototype of its kind -original idea- used over & over
analogy e.g no rainbow without rain= no success without work
allusion e.g Katy is our mother Theresa
archetype, e.g Romeo & Juliette as star crossed lovers
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perspective/attitude that the author adopts with regards to a character/place/development
atmosphere
tone
motif
characterization
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"We look for signs in every strange event; we search for heroes in every unknown face." is ...
parallelism
antithesis
phylosophical
parataxis
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“Weary feet in the walk of life” means ...
synecdoche
allusion
metonymy
you should get sturdy shoes
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figurative language is
oxymoron, synecdoche and diction
similes, metaphors and personification
hyperbole, paradox and characterization
analogy, comparison and anastrophe
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"The residents of the village looked up at the
angry skies
in alarm" is ...
anthropomorphism
a pathetic fallacy
personification
a forecast
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A foil is a ...
a character who serves as a contrast to another character
something that causes change or growth in something else
a very thin sheet of metal
an element which contributes to the unfoldig of the plot
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Scrambled weather. Lightning forecast. Earthbound way to start the day: oatmeal. So soothed.
asyndeton
parallelilsm
polysyndeton
parataxis
