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Figurative Language and Literary Devices--take 1
What is an idiom?
What is foreshadowing?
Figurative Language and Literary Devices--take 1
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What is foreshadowing?
An obvious over-exaggeration
When the author drops hints, clues, or warnings about events to come
A word or phrase that is used differently than its literal meaning
Is a self-contradictory word or group of words with opposite meanings
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What is an idiom?
Joke based upon words that have multiple meanings
Is when the author drops hints, clues, or warnings about events to come
Places a person or thing in the wrong time period for the story
A word or phrase that is used differently than its literal meaning
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What is mood?
Joke based upon words that have multiple meanings
Gives human like qualities to inanimate objects
Brief, indirect reference to something well-known in real life
Text influences what the reader is feeling or the vibe
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What is imagery?
A contrast between reality and expectation
Text influences what reader is feeling or vibe
Descriptive language that appeals to reader's senses
Brief, indirect reference something well-known
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What is a metaphor?
Compares 2 unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"
Joke based upon words that have multiple meanings
Group of words that convey the lesson learned, moral, or life advice
Places a person or thing in the wrong time period for the story
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What is a simile?
Is a self-contradictory word, or a group of words with opposite meanings
Compares 2 unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"
Compares 2 unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
Is a word that sounds like the noise/action its describing
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What is a pun?
When the author drops hints, clues, or warnings about events to come
Uses objects, people, or situations to represent something else
Joke based upon words that have multiple meanings
Is a word that sounds like the noise/action its describing
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What is hyperbole?
Gives human characteristics to something not human or inanimate
Repeating the same beginning consonant sound in 2 or more neighboring words
Suggests 2 unlike things are the same using the words "like" or "as"
An obvious over-exaggeration
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What is a euphemism?
Is a word that sounds like the noise/action its describing
Polite word or phrase that is used to describe something unpleasant
Is a self-contradictory word or a group of words with opposite meaning
Uses objects, people, situations, or actions to represent other things
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What is an oxymoron?
Is a self-contradictory word or group of words with opposite meanings
Suggests 2 unlike things are the same without using "like" or "as"
An obvious over-exaggeration
A contrast between expectation and reality
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What is a onomatopoeia?
Is a word that sounds like the noise/action its describing
Is a self-contradictory word or group of words with opposite meaning
Is a self-contradictory word, or a group of words with opposite meanings
Text influences what reader is feeling or the vibe
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What is theme?
Group of words that convey the lesson learned, moral, or life advice
Repeating the same beginning consonant sound in 2 or more neighboring words
Gives human characteristics to inanimate objects
Polite word or phrase that is used to describe something unpleasant
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What is a flashback?
A word that sounds like the noise/action its describing
An interjected scene that takes the story back in time from a current point
Reflects what the author's attitude is about something
Places a person or thing in the wrong time period for the story
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What is an allusion?
Brief, indirect reference to something well-known
Polite word or phrase that is used to describe something unpleasant
Suggests 2 unlike things are the same without using words "like" or "as"
A contrast between reality and expectation
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What is tone?
Descriptive language that appeals to the senses
A word or phrase that is used differently than its literal meaning
Reflects what the author's attitude is about something
An interjected scene that takes the story back in time from a current place
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What is anachronism?
Joke based upon words that have multiple meanings
An interjected scene that takes the story back in time from a current place
Gives human characteristics to things not human
Places a person or thing in the wrong time period for the story
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What is alliteration?
Uses objects, people, situations, or actions to represent other things
Repeating the same beginning consonant sound in 2 or more neighboring words
Groups of words that convey the lesson learned, moral, or life advice
An obvious overexaggeration
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What is symbolism?
Places a person or things in the wrong time period for the story
Reflects what the author's attitude is about something
Is when the author drops hints, clues, or warnings about events to come
Uses objects, people, situations, or actions to represent other things
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What is irony?
Group of words that convey the lesson learned, moral, or life advice
A contrast between reality and expectation
Is a word that sounds like the noise/action its describing
Brief, indirect reference to something well-known
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What is personification?
Uses objects, people, situations, or actions to represent other things
Polite word or phrase that is used to describe something unpleasant
Text influences what reader is feeling or the vibe created
Gives human characteristics to something not human
