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Literary Devices
Literary/Poetic Devices, Techniques or Elements
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | consonant sound repeating in proximity |
| Allusion | indirect reference to a well known person, place, thing or character. |
| Ambiguity | 1 Meaning |
| Analogy | relationship comparison. |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| audience | those for whom a work is intended: different audiences = different |
| Author's purpose | inform, entertain, persuade, express-may not be same as reader's understanding. |
| Blank Verse | UnRhymed iambic pentameter |
| Cliche | an overused saying |
| connotation | meaning of a word beyond exact definition-shades of meaning or idiom |
| consonance | repetiton of consonant sound not first letter of world |
| contrast | difference between items |