Literary Devices
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English
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9th - 12th Grade
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Hard
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1.
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A deliberate exaggeration for effect.
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Hyperbole
2.
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A writer's reuse of a sound, word, phrase, or sentence.
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Repetition
3.
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Comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.
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Simile
4.
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A work where characters, events, or settings symbolize something else.
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Allegory
5.
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Informal, conversational language; a word or expression common in a specific language or region.
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Colloquialism
6.
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Anything that represents itself and something else.
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Symbol
7.
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A figure of speech where one thing is described as another.
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Metaphor
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