ELA Literary Devices

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Alliteration

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Is the repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Allusion

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Is a direct or indirect reference to a familiar figure, place or event from history, literature, mythology, or the Bible.

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Apostrophe

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A figure of speech in which a person not present is addressed

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Assonance

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Is the close repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables

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Atmosphere/mood

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is the prevailing feeling that is created in a story or poem

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Cacophony

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Harsh sound introduced for poetic effect - sometimes words that are hard to pronouce

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Cliche

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An overused expression that has lost its intended force or novelty

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Consonance

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the close repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after different vowels

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Dissonance

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the juxtaposition of harsh jarring sounds in one or more lines

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Euphony

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agreeable sounds that are easy to articulate

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Hyperbole

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an exaggeration in the service of truth- an overstatement

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Idiom

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is a term or phrase than can not be understood by its literal translation.

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Imagery

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representation through language of sense experience.

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Irony

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is a literary device which reveals concealed or contradictory meanings

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Jargon

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language peculiar to a particular trade , profession or group

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Juxtaposition

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is the overlapping or mixing of opposite situations, characters, settings, moods, or points of view for clarity. It also contrasts.

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Litotes

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a form of understatement in which something os said by denying the opposite

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Metaphor

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a comparison between two things which are essentially dissimilar

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Meter

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any regular pattern of rhythm based on stressed and unstressed syllables

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Metonymy

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use of closely related ideas for the idea itself

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onomatopoeia

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The use of words which sound like what they mean

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oxymoron

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two words placed close together which are contradictory, yet have truth in them. ex plastic glasses

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Paradox

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a statement in which there is an apparent contradiction which is actually true

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Personificaton

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giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea

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Rhyme

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words that sound alike

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rhyme scheme

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any pattern of rhymes in poetry

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rhythm

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A series of stressed or accented syllable sin a group of words arranged so that the reader experts similar series to follow

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Simile

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a comparison between two things using “like” “as” and “than”

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Speaker

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the voice which seems to be telling the poem.

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Synecdoche

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the use of a part for the whole idea