Literary Devices

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Comparison without "like" or "as"

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Metaphor

Front

Giving human traits to non-human things

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Personification

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Descriptive writing that creates images in the reader's mind

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Imagery

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Author's attitude toward their writing

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Tone

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Word choice

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Diction

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Emotional associations of words

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Connotation

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Reference to someone/something in history or pop culture

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Allusion

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Repetition of consonant sounds at the start of words (e.g., Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers)

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Alliteration

Front

Punctuation mark in poetry indicating a pause

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Caesura

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Using words to show sounds

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Onomatopoeia