Literary Devices Author: Meighen Mitchel
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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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