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Per.5 Devices
Per.5 Glossary of Literary Devices
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | Repetition if sounds/letters |
| Allusion | a reference to another piece of literature/history |
| Hyperbole | an exaggeration of something |
| idiom | an expression whose meaning is not predictable form the actual meaning |
| imagery | the representation through language of sensory experience |
| irony | the use of words that have the meaning of the opposite of the words |
| metaphor | something used to represent something else |
| metonymy | a figure of speech in which some aspect or detail is used to represent whole |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate a sound |
| oxymoron | similar to a paradox but more detailed("packed in") |
| paradox | a seeming contraction that reveals a greater truth |
| parallelism | using the same pattern of words, phrases, or clauses |
| personification | an object doing human actions |
| pun | a humorous use of a word or phrase |
| repetition for effect | the use of words repeated for more details |
| simile | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared |
| symbol | something that means what it is and more |
| understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller that it actually is |
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