Literary Devices Flashcards
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What Is Imagery?
visually descriptive languge or writing
Ex. I looked at the tree and its long oak branches reaching to the sky
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What Is Anaphora?
Repetition of the same word(s)
or
Repeated Words
Ex. “we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow” -Lincoln
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What Is Personification?
Giving human traits to something not human
Ex. As the trees hair blowed in the wind its fingers reached out to me
(Hair = Leafs) (Fingers = Branches)
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What Is Alliteration?
Same letter or sound at the beginning of words
Ex. 𝗦𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 birds 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗴
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What Is A Simile
A comparison using like or as
Ex. She was as beautiful as aphrodite
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What Is A Metaphor?
A comparison by stating one thing is another
Ex. She Is The Day and I am The Night
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What Is Symbolism?
One thing is meant to represent another
Ex.
Red Roses (Love)
Dove (Peace)
White Flags (Surrender)
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What Is A Onomatopoeia?
Sounds written
Ex.
Splish Splash
Knock Knock
Drip Drip
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What Is Allusion?
Implyed or indirect refrence to a person, event or thing
Ex. To my dog, our neighborhood park is the Garden of Eden.
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What Is A Hyperbole?
Exaggrated statements or claims
Ex. He is the smartest person in the world
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What Is A Flashback?
Remebering a past moment
Ex: sometimes I fall into a trance remebering the raid of the war
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What Is Dramtic Irony
Something only the reader knows
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Verbal Irony
Sarcasm
Ex. Youuu look nice?
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Situational Irony
Karma
Ex. Firestation Burns down
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What Is Paradox
Self-Contradictary Staments of a situation
