Creative Writing: High School: Literary Devices, List 2

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  1. foreshadowing
    the act of providing vague advance indications
  2. flashback
    a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene
  3. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  4. oxymoron
    conjoined contradictory terms
  5. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  6. allegorical
    characteristic of or containing a symbolic meaning or moral
  7. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  8. parallelism
    similarity by virtue of corresponding
  9. realism
    the attribute of accepting the facts of life
  10. rhetorical question
    an inquiry that is not supposed to be answered
  11. apostrophe
    a mark used to indicate the omission of one or more letters
  12. aside
    on or to one side
  13. anaphora
    repetition of a word or phrase to begin successive clauses
  14. chiasmus
    inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
  15. synesthesia
    a sensation that occurs when a different sense is stimulated
Created on Tue Jun 03 09:30:17 EDT 2025 (updated Tue Jun 03 09:36:09 EDT 2025)

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