Literary Devices

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Personification

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Giving human-like traits to non-living objects.

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Alliteration

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Repetition of consonant sounds

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Onomatopoeia

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A word that mimics a sound.

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Metaphor:

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A comparison of two things using is or was.

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Symbolism

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using symbols to represent something

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Simile

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Comparing two unlike things using like or as.

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Apostrophe in poetry:

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used to address someone or something that is not there.

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Struggle between opposing forces (e.g., Lennie vs. Curley, Lennie vs. George, Candy vs. himself, Ranch men vs. society)

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conflict

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Time and place of a story (e.g., Salinas River, 1930s)

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setting

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Adding human traits to non-living things. Ex: "the afternoon sun sliced through the cracks of barn walls"

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personification