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Literary devices
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A Language Arts Intro to looking at literary devices
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The repetition of the initial consonant sound (vowels don't matter)
consonance
assonance
alliteration
connotation
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"Nice wheels!" (meaning I like your CAR)
personification
metaphor
synechdoche
metonymy
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"Sally sells seashells" is best described as an example of
alliteration
consonance
assonance
metaphor
4
Substituting the name of something closely related to represent the thing ex.
suit
for
executive
simile
metaphor
synechdoche
metonymy
5
Words that imitate sounds
consonance
assonance
personification
onomotopoeia
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Deliberate exaggeration not meant to be taken literally
metaphor
alliteration
consonance
hyperbole
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The close repetition of vowel sounds in conjunction with dissimilar consonants. ex at, ask
consonance
metaphor
alliteration
assonance
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Chocolate was her Achilles’ heel.
allusion
metaphor
personification
imagery
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The meaning of the word BEYOND its dictionary definition
allusion
connotation
mood
symbol
10
Giving human qualities to a non human subject
oxymoron
metaphor
personification
simile
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A comparison using like or as
simile
metaphor
personification
allusion
12
A figure of speech that puts together two contradictory ideas
assonance
metaphor
personification
oxymoron
13
a brief reference to a person, place, or idea of historical, cultural,or literary significance.
hyperbole
allusion
onomotopoeia
personification
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"Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines"
genre
personification
metaphor
synechdoche
15
The part is used to represent the whole or vice versa.
synechdoche
onomatopoeia
metaphor
metonymy
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“Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!" -Juliet
metaphor
oxymoron
personification
assonance
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A comparison that does NOT use like or as
oxymoron
metaphor
simile
personification
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"Death is a long sleep."
metaphor
synechdoche
alliteration
personification
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The "voice" that the author adopts when writing
tone
mood
symbol
prose
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I have a mountain of homework!
personification
simile
hyperbole
metaphor