Creative Writing: Middle School: Literary Devices, List 2

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  1. irony
    incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
  2. dramatic irony
    when the audience understands something the characters don't
  3. foreshadowing
    the act of providing vague advance indications
  4. flashback
    a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene
  5. personification
    representing an abstract quality or idea as a human
  6. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  7. allegorical
    characteristic of or containing a symbolic meaning or moral
  8. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  9. parallelism
    repetition of similar or equivalent syntactic constructions
  10. realism
    artistic movement that represents the world accurately
  11. rhetorical question
    an inquiry that is not supposed to be answered
  12. apostrophe
    an address to an absent or imaginary person
  13. aside
    a line spoken by an actor not intended for others on stage
Created on Wed Jun 04 14:06:57 EDT 2025 (updated Wed Jun 04 14:12:24 EDT 2025)

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