Literary Devices Flashcard

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Literary device in: 'You big-bellies around here and put out a lot of brag, but 'taint nothin' to it but yo' big voice'

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Alliteration

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Literary device in 'Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board'

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Assonance

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Literary device in 'People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor'

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Consonance

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Literary device in 'The great clap of laughter bursts out'

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Onomatopoeia

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Literary device in 'He's de wind and we'se de grass'?

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Metaphor

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Literary device in 'He gave a deep-growling sound like a hog dying down in the swamp...'?

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Simile

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Literary device in 'To start off wid, people like dem wastes up too much time puttin' they mouf on things they don't know nothin' about'

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Metonymy

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Literary device in 'building a high chair for her to sit in and overlook the world and she here pouting over it!'

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Symbolism

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Literary device in 'Janie dozed off to sleep but she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark'?

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Personification

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Literary device in 'Well, if he do all dat whut you come in heah wid uh face long as mah arm for?'

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Hyperbole