Literary Devices
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| Allusion | a reference to a well known song, text, art, famous person.
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| hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration
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| Imagery | the use of any words that appeal to the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, taste).
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| Irony | when the outcome is different than expected
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| verbal irony | difference between what is said and what is meant (think of sarcasm).
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| situational irony | difference between what the characters believe is going to happen and what really does.
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| Dramatic irony | when the audience knows something that the characters do not.
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| metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things that does not use like or as.
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| Oxymoron | words that are opposite: jumbo shrimp, sweet sorrow, controlled chaos.
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| personification | giving animals, ideas, or things human-like characteristics
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| simile | a comparison using like or as.
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| symbol | a person, object, place, or action that stands for something else (think Scarlet Ibis standing for Doodle)
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