STAAR Grade 5 Reading: Literary Devices and Figures of Speech

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  1. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  2. figurative
    not literal
  3. foreshadow
    indicate by signs
  4. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
  5. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  6. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  7. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  8. rhythm
    alternation of stressed and unstressed elements in speech
  9. sensory
    involving or derived from the senses
  10. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
Created on Tue Jul 27 09:25:25 EDT 2021 (updated Tue Jul 27 11:20:40 EDT 2021)

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