Literary Devices - Examples

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Example of a metaphor:

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The snow was a white blanket on the normally green grass.

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Example of imagery:

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The ball was a deep red, like a fire truck, glistening in the sun.

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Example of a simile:

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Her hair shined like the sun.

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Example of alliteration:

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The purple pants were perfect on the professor.

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Example of allusion:

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He was acting like Hitler, I was nervous we were about to have a 3rd World War.

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Example of onomatopoeia:

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CRASH!

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Example of personification:

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The wind howled in the dark night sky.

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Foreshadowing: clues about future events. Flashback: author describes past events.

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Foreshadowing - clues about future events / Flashback - author describes past events.

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In Lemony Snicket, the island's inhabitants in The End are characters from The Tempest by Shakespeare.

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Allusion

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Definition of theme?

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Overall lesson the reader gets.