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Literary Devices Flashcards

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Epigraph

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Beginning quotation at start of book/ paragraph

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Metonymy

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A whole component used to reprsent a smaller one
Crown > king or queen

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Synecdoche

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smaller component used to represent bigger whole
hand> marriage

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Hyperbole

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Exaggration

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Assonance

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Repetition like juxtaposition

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Ellipsis

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….
Pause between

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Enjambement

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Continuing sentence after stanza

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Pun

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Humorous way to make 1 saying mean two things

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Juxtaposition

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an act of placing 2 or more things together to compare contrast ir create relation or intresting effects

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Idioms

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Expression of language w not literar meaning

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Oxymoron

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two contradictory words go together
ex. Icy heat

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Paradox

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Extended oxymoron so a whole sentence follows contradictory words

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