Literary Devices

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Quotation

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Speech marks placed around exact words from a text.

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Alliteration

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Two or more words together beginning with the same consonant sound e.g. fantastic phone.

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Metaphor

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A comparison in which one thing is said to be another e.g. the moon is a balloon.

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Simile

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A comparison using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.

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Onomatopoeia

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Words which sound like the sound they describe e.g. smash, crunch.

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Personification

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When human qualities are given to non-human things e.g. The mountains stared icily down.

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Rhetorical Question

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A question that is asked for effect and does not require an answer.