FLASHCARDS: 🔍Literary Devices

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The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together

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Alliteration

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An object or animal spoken of as if it has human feelings, thoughts or attitude

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Personification

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Overstating something, usually for the purpose of creating a comic effect

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Hyperbole

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A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood as literally true

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Figure of Speech

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An expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning of the words

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Idiom

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A comparison between two unlike things using words such as like, as, resembles or than

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Simile

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An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing.

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Metaphor

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A comparison made between two things to show how they are alike

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Analogy

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The use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning

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Onomatopoeia

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A reference to a statement, a person, place, or an event from literature, the arts, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture

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Allusion