Station 3: Literary Devices review

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What is personification?

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Making an inanimate object seem alive using characteristics you would use to describe a person.

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What is a simile?

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Using 'like' or 'as' to compare things that seem to be different.

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What is imagery?

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Descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses.

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What literary device uses the words 'like' or 'as'?

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Simile.

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Which of these statements is an example of personification? I like spicy food, but it doesn't like me. I am as cool as a cucumber. The classroom is a zoo. Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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I like spicy food, but it doesn't like me.

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What is hyperbole?

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A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to make a point.

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What is metaphor?

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A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is alliteration?

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.

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What is onomatopoeia?

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A word that imitates the natural sound of a thing.

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What is a theme in literature?

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The central idea or message conveyed in a literary work.