Literary Devices Keystone Terms #2

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Implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place, or event.

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Allusion

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Conversation between characters in a literary work or drama

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Dialogue

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Language not meant to be taken literally, used for effect or feeling.

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Figurative Language

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Organizational device in literature for actions before the current time, often as character memories.

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Flashback

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Organizational device in literature that creates expectation or explains later developments.

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Foreshadowing

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Exaggeration or overstatement (Ex. I had to wait forever).

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Hyperbole

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Descriptive or figurative language in literature; creates sensory impressions.

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Imagery

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Use of a word/phrase to mean the opposite of its usual meaning; incongruity between actual and expected results.

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Irony

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Tool that enlivens text (e.g., dialogue, imagery)

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Literary Device

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Comparison of two unlike things without 'like' or 'as' (e.g., Her eyes were a vast ocean)

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Metaphor