Literary Devices LPS

Ms. Quane (United States of America)
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  1. dialogue
    a conversation between two persons
  2. dialect
    the usage or vocabulary characteristic of a group of people
  3. description
    the act of depicting something
  4. digression
    a message that departs from the main subject
  5. foreshadowing
    the act of providing vague advance indications
  6. flashback
    a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene
  7. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  8. repetition
    the act of doing or performing again
  9. symbolism
    the practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning
  10. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  11. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  12. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  13. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  14. imagery
    the ability to form mental pictures of things or events
  15. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  16. allegory
    a short moral story
Created on Sat Mar 01 22:26:50 EST 2014 (updated Sun Mar 02 16:34:56 EST 2014)

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