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1
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Af figure of speech in a rhetorical devices that’s achieved a special effects by using words in a DISTINCT WAY

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Literary devices

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Language that’s has meaning beyond the literal meaning also known as “FIGURE OF SPEECH”

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Figurative language

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3
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Is an expression comparing one thing to another using the word “like or as”

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Simile

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Comparison of two unlike things WITHOUT using the words “like or as”

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Metaphor

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5
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It’s an obvious EXAGGERATION or overstatement

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Hyperbole

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gives human qualities , animals or object

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Personification

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Is a word that IMITATES the It represent

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Onomatopoeia

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Is when a writer makes the FIVE SENSES

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Imagery

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IMPORTANT HINTS that an author drop to prepare the reader for what is to come and help the reader ANTICIPATE The outcome

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Foreshadowing

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10
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Is the repetition of the same constant sound in words occurring hear one another

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Alliteration

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Casual reference to a FAMOUS HISTORICAL or literary figure of events

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Alosion

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12
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Reveals something true which at first seems contradictory

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Paradox

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13
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Using an OBJECT or action that means SOMETHING MORE THAN it’s LITERAL MEANING

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Symbolism

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Is an expression with a meaning different from the LITERAL MEANING of the words

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Idioms

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15
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Two opposite terms

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Oxymoron

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Is a POLITE words or phrased used in place of one that may be two direct UNPLEASANT OR EMBARRASSING

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Euphemism

17
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Is an expression that has last it’s power and originally from OVERUSE

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Cliché

18
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Humourous and double meaning

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Pun

19
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Repetition of the FIRST MEANING

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Anaphora

20
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It’s vowels sounds that are being repeated

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Assonance

21
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Represented by on examination such as “OH”

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Apostrophe

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