Literary Devices Flashcards

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Simile

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Comparing two things using "like" or "as"

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Metaphor

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Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"

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Alliteration

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Repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of neighboring words

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Personification

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Giving non-human things human qualities

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Onomatopoeia

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Words which imitate the sounds they refer to

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Rhyme

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Words that end with the same sounds at the end of lines

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Repetition

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The same words or phrases repeated

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Imagery

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Words that create pictures in the reader’s mind

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Free verse poem

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Does not always rhyme, can have any number of lines or stanzas

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Limerick

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A short, funny poem that rhymes (a,a,b,b,a); each stanza has 5 lines