Literary Devices

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Happiness tastes like freshly baked chocolate cookies.

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simile

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Strange, rare odors: sea smell, weeds, damp earth, and white blossoms. - The Awakening, Kate Chopin (1899)

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imagery

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“I heard the rain beating on the staircase window, and the wind howling in the grove behind the hall.” - Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (1847)

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imagery

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Maria's long, unpainted nails and a small dimple on her right cheek in 'How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife' (Arguilla) illustrate:

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imagery

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“It went zip when it moved, bop when it stopped, and whirr when it stood still. I never knew what it was.” (Tom Paxton)

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onomatopoeia

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“Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze…” (Daffodils by Wordsworth)

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consonance (l and s)

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“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.” (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)

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alliteration

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“A Quietness distilled
As Twilight long begun,
Or Nature spending with herself
Sequestered Afternoon–“
(As imperceptibly as Grief by Emily Dickinson)

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consonance

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Regular pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables in poetry

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meter

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Basic repeated meter sequence of accented/unaccented syllables

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