Literary Devices Author: Meighen Mitchel Description: Keywords: literary devices, , , , , , online teaching
Content: Definitions: 0. foreshadowing 1. allegory 2. personification 3. alliteration 4. allusion 5. dialect 6. hyperbole 7. mood 8. diciton 9. tone 10. cliche 11. slang 12. irony 13. rhetoric 14. similie 15. metaphor
Answers: 0. comparing two things without using like or as 1. exageration of ideas for the sake of emphasis 2. words used to mean the opposite of what they usually do 3. to opposite things being joined for effect 4. the additude of the author or speaker in a piece of work 5. comparing two things using like or as 6. the overall feeling in a work 7. technique of using language effectively to convey a point 8. words not in a standard vocabulary but used in speech 9. starting consecutive words with the same letter for emphasis 10. an overused expression that has lost meaning over time 11. the language used by a specific region or group of people 12. a reference to a work or person not directly in the narrative 13. abstract ideas and beliefs are embodied in characters 14. giving an innanimate object human like qualities 15. the word choice of the author to create the desired effect
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