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L.A. Lit-Devices
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Point of View | The perspective from which a story is told. The voice telling the story. |
| Simile | Using like or as to compare two things that are unlike. |
| Allusion | A usually brief often casual reference to some other person. |
| Flashback | A section of a novel that interrupts the chronological sequence of events to relate something that happens at an earlier time. |
| Foreshadowing | Hint or suggestion about something that will occur later in the novel. |
| Pun | A play on words in which two different meanings for the same word or two words that sound the same. They are humorous. |
| Idioms | An expression with a meaning beyond the literal meaning of the words in the phrase. |
| Personification | When an author grants life like qualities to a nonhuman object. |
| Ironic | The contrast between what happens and what really happens. |