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Literary devices
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Words that imitate sounds
personification
assonance
consonance
onomotopoeia
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Deliberate exaggeration not meant to be taken literally
alliteration
metaphor
hyperbole
consonance
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Chocolate was her Achilles’ heel.
allusion
personification
metaphor
imagery
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I have a mountain of homework!
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
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"Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines"
genre
synechdoche
personification
metaphor
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“Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!" -Juliet
oxymoron
assonance
personification
metaphor
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"Sally sells seashells" is best described as an example of
metaphor
alliteration
assonance
consonance
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The "voice" that the author adopts when writing
prose
mood
symbol
tone
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a brief reference to a person, place, or idea of historical, cultural,or literary significance.
allusion
hyperbole
onomotopoeia
personification
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A figure of speech that puts together two contradictory ideas
metaphor
personification
assonance
oxymoron
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"Death is a long sleep."
personification
metaphor
alliteration
synechdoche
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A comparison that does NOT use like or as
metaphor
simile
oxymoron
personification
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The repetition of the initial consonant sound (vowels don't matter)
consonance
assonance
alliteration
connotation
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Giving human qualities to a non human subject
simile
oxymoron
personification
metaphor
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The meaning of the word BEYOND its dictionary definition
connotation
allusion
symbol
mood
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A comparison using like or as
simile
personification
allusion
metaphor
