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Literary Devices Flashcards

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What is Hyperbole?

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An Exaggeration To an unrealistic degree

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What is the 3 types of Irony?

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Verbal, Dramatic and Situational Irony

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What is Pathetic Fallacy?

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Human Feelings in response to inanimate objects

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What is Juxaposition?

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2 things being seen or put close together with contrasting effects

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What is Personification?

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Human Characteristics on something non human

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What is Oxymoron?

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Contradicting words with opposite meaning

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What is Paradox?

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a contradicting statement but when looked at deeper can be seen as true

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What is Onomatopoeia?

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formation of a word from a sound that is associated

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What is Simile?

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a simile is something that compares 2 things to eachother

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What is Pun?

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A Pun is a joke exploiting the meaning a word

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What is Melancholy?

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a feeling of intense and obvious sadness

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What is Allusion?

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an allusion is when you hint something without directly saying it

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What is Apathetic?

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showing no or very low interest in something

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What is Metaphor?

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a comparison between 2 things that are unrelated and is not to be taken literally

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What is Alliteration?

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2 words that sound similar too each other and start with the same letter eg “fish fry”

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What is Idiom?

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a group of words with a figurative not literal meaning eg its raining cats and dogs

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What is Foreshadowing?

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a warning or hint to an upcoming event

18
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What is Anaphora?

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the use of another word with similar meaning to avoid repetition

19
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What is Villanelle?

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2 words that rhyme in a sentence

20
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What is Sonnet?

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a 14 word poem with no independent rhyme scheme

21
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What is Renaissance?

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a revival or renewed interest

22
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What is Irony?

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someone saying something hinting an opposite meaning

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