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Literary Devices
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allusion | A reference to a well known song, text, art, famous person. |
| Hyperbole | An extreme exaggeration |
| Imagery | The use of any words that appeal to the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, taste). |
| Irony | When the outcome is different than expected |
| Verbal Irony | difference between what is said and what is meant (think of sarcasm). |
| Situational Irony | Difference between what the characters believe is going to happen and what really does. |
| Dramatic irony | when the audience knows something that the characters do not. |
| Metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things that does not use like or as. |
| Oxymoron | words that are opposite: jumbo shrimp, sweet sorrow, controlled chaos. |
| Personification | Giving Animals, ideas, of things human-like characteristics |
| Simile | A comparison using like or as |
| Symbol | A person, object, place or action that stands for something else(think scarlet ibis standing for doodle) |