Literary Devices

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What is the literary definition of a figure of speech?

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Expressions that are not literally true but suggest similarities between usually unrelated things

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What type of literary device is it when a fire station catches on fire and burns to the ground?

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Situational Irony

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Term for when we know something a character doesn't know in a story.

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Dramatic Irony

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Simile

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Compare two unlike things using a word of comparison such as "like"

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The following is an example of what type of literary device: Heather is a beautiful snowflake. Options: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Verbal Irony

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Metaphor

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A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular place or group of people.

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Dialect

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Symbolism

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People, places, or events that have meaning in themselves but that also stand for something beyond themselves

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The following is an example of what type of literary device: the train eats up the miles. Options: Symbolism, Dialect, Dramatic Irony, Personification

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Personification

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Term for when we say one thing and mean something else.

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Verbal Irony

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Imagery

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Language that creates word pictures and appeals to the senses