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Literary Devices
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Theme | What the author is trying to say about the nature of the human condition |
| Motif | A recurring image throughout a text |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics to anything not human |
| Hyberbole | Intentional exaggeration for emphasis |
| Understatement | Representing less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out |
| Anecdote | A short narrative account of a particular incident or event,especially of an interesting or amusing nature |
| Analogy | A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based |
| Metaphor | A direct comparison between two unlike objects |
| Similie | A comparison between two objects using either "like" or "as" |
| Symbol | Something concrete meant to represent an abtract concept |
| Dramatic Irony | When the reader knows something that the character doesn't |
| Verbal Irony | When the meaning of the speaker's word is opposite from what is actually said |
| Situational Irony | When the unexpected occurs |
| Imagery | Vivid use of language the evokes a reader's senses ex. sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing |
| Allusion | A specific reference to some piece of literature or some historical event/figure |
| Juxtaposition | Placement of two opposite ideas/concepts near each other for empahsis |
| Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas |
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