Literary Devices Flashcards

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A dramatic device where a character in a play expresses their thoughts and feelings aloud alone

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Soliloquy

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Comparison of spiritual quality

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Metaph. Conceit

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A figure of speech that uses a compound word or phrase to replace a common noun with amor figurative description

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Keening

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4
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A grammatical device that uses simular grammatical forms to express similar ideas in. Sentence

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Parallelism

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5
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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

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Alliteration

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