ENG I EOC Literary Devices & Figures of Speech

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figurative

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adj. not literal

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imagery

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n. the use of vivid sensory language in literature

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irony

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n. incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs

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metaphor

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n. a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity

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oxymoron

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n. conjoined contradictory terms

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personification

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n. attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas

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repetition

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n. the continued use of the same word or word pattern

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satire

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n. a literary genre that uses humor to ridicule human failings and vices

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simile

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n. a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things

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symbolism

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n. the practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning