Literary Devices

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Metaphor

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Comparison between 2 unlike things without the use of like or as

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Fame is a bee.

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Personification

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An object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.

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The storm roared like a lion.

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Hyperbole

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Uses an incredible exaggeration, or over statement, for effect.

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I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

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Tone

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The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience.

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Simile

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Comparison between 2 unlike things using the words like or as.

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Helen, thy beauty is to me like those Nicean barks of yore.

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Diction

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A speakers or writers choice of words.

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Irony

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A discrepancy between appearances and reality.

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Imagery

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Use if language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience.

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Mood

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The overall emotion created by a work of literature.

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Repetition

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A unifying property of repeated words, sounds, syllables, and other elements that appear in work.

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Symbolism

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Writers rearrange the world of appearances in order to reveal a more truthful version of reality.

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Idiom

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An expression particular to a certain language that means something different from the literal definitions of its parts.

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Dialect

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A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or the inhabitants of a certain geographical area.

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Ambiguity

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Ambiguity a technique by which a writer deliberately suggests two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work.

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Foreshadowing

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The use of of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot.