Literary Devices

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Simile

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Comparisons between two unlike things using like, as, than, or resembles.

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Metaphor

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Imaginative comparisons between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing.

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Dialect

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A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain geographical area or group of people.

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Verbal Irony

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Irony is a contrast between what one expects and reality. Verbal irony is when someone says one thing and mean something else.

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Situational Irony

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Irony is a contrast between what one expects and reality. Situational Irony is a situation that turns out to be just the oppositee of what we'd expect.

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Dranatic Irony

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Irony is a contrast bewteen what one expects and reality. Dramatic irony occurs when we know something that a character in a stroy doesn't know.

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Imagery

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Vivid imagery is language that creates word pictures and apprals to the senses. Words that make us feel like we are seeing, feeling, tasting, hearing, and smelling what the writer is trying to describe.

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Figures of Speech

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Expressions that are not "literally" true but suggest similarities between unusually unlike things.

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Personification

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When non-human or inanimate things are referred to as if they have lifelike or human qualities.

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Symbols

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Persons, places, things, or events that have meaing in themselves and stand for something beyond themselves as well. Things that stand for something greater.