As a literary device it is a metaphor in which a character, place or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.

• allegory

• metonymy

• syllogism

• invective

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TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

TEKS.ELA.E3.8E

TEKS.ELA.E4.8E

The repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause.

"When I give, I give myself."

• oxymoron

• metonymy

• polysyndeton

• anadiplosis

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TEKS.ELA.1.9B

TEKS.ELA.2.10F

TEKS.ELA.CW.4A

TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

A reference to an event, literary work or person - I can't do that because I am not Superman.

• zeugma

• parody

• allusion

• tone

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TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

The recurrence of initial consonant sounds - rubber baby buggy bumpers

• personification

• alliteration

• synecdoche

• litotes

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TEKS.ELA.1.9B

TEKS.ELA.4.10D

TEKS.ELA.CW.4A

TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

Repeats a word or expression for emphasis - Love, real love, takes time.

• rhetoric

• chiasmus

• eponym

• amplification

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TEKS.ELA.1.9B

TEKS.ELA.2.10F

TEKS.ELA.CW.4A

TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

Repeats a word or phrase in successive phrases - "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?" (Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare)

• alliteration

• pathos

• anaphora

• asyndeton

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TEKS.ELA.1.9B

TEKS.ELA.2.10F

TEKS.ELA.CW.4A

TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g., "You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit.")

• understatement

• catharsis

• simile

• zeugma

Compares two different things that have some similar characteristics -

He is flaky as a snowstorm.

• parallelism

• paradox

• metaphor

• analogy

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TEKS.ELA.R.2E

TEKS.ELA.RI.2B

TEKS.MATH.6.2B

The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is

• oxymoron

• understatement

• consonance

• assonance

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TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

TEKS.ELA.E1.8G

Makes a connection between two things "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

(Neil Armstrong)

• antithesis

• climax

• juxtaposition

• hyperbole

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TEKS.ELA.E1.6B