Literary Terms

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Parallelism

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Repetition throughout a written work

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Inversion

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Reversal of usual word order to receive emphasis

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Metonymy

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Use of one thing to represent something related

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Synechdoche

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Part of something represents a whole

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Extended metaphor

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Developed or extended over a number of lines or through an entire poem or piece

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Hyperbole

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Extreme exaggeration

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Personification

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Figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

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Simile

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Figure of speech that makes an elicit comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as than, or resembles

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Metaphor-directly stated

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States explicitly. “Fame is a bee” (E. Dickinson)

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Implied metaphor

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Does not state explicitly the comparison. “I like to see it lap the miles.” (Emily Dickinson); lap implies a comparison between the train and some animal that laps up water

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Dead metaphor

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Used so often, comparison no longer vivid: “The head of the house.”

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Mixed metaphor

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Fails to make logical comparison because mixed terms are use that are incompatible: “The President is a lame suck that is running out of gas.”