Literary Devices and Literary Analysis

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Literary device in: "A moment more and I had fettered him to the granite..."

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Imagery

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Figurative language in "The nitre! I said: 'see, it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults. We are below the river's bed. The drops of moisture trickle among the bones.'"

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Simile

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Figurative language in 'The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.'

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Hyperbole

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Example of figurative language: “It is nothing,” he said. (Paragraph 34) “Nothing”.

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Meiosis

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Dramatic irony:

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audience/reader knows more than the character

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Figurative language in the quote: “It is farther on,” said I; “but observe the white web-work which gleams from these cavern walls.”

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Alliteration

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Situational irony: The expected outcome is the complete opposite.

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The expected outcome is the complete opposite.

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Verbal irony is:

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Saying one thing, but meaning the opposite. Also known as sarcasm.

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Dramatic irony: The audience is more aware of something than the character involved.

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The audience is more aware of something than the character being involved.

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Alliteration

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Repetition of the same beginning consonant sound in closely connected words.