Literary devices - 9th grade
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portgirl1999 on February 15, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alliteration | the repetition of the beginning sound in two or more words in a line of verse |
| analogy | corresponding in some respects, especially in function or position between things otherwise dissimilar i.e the way you grow old is like the rings inside a tree trunk |
| assonance | the repition of a vowel sound in two or more words. Sometimes called partial or near rhyme i.e. base and fade |
| connotation | the association that comes with a word other than it's actual meaning i.e. "yacht" and wealth |
| consonance | The repetion of consonant sounds in the middle or at the end of words (spies hiss in stillness) |
| hyberbole | exaggeration to heighten feeling i.e "i'm so hungry, I could eat a horse" i.e. "I've told you a million times!" |
| onomateopoeia | the use of a word to represent or imitate natural sounds i.e. buzz, crunch, tinkle, gurgle, sizzle |
| paradox | a statement that is contradictory but is somehow true i.e. "they won the war, they lost the war"(they defeated the enemy but they lost too many soldiers) |
| simile | describing a thing by comparing it to an unlike thing, using the words like, as or than i.e. her face was white as a ghost |
| Soliloquy | When a character speaks to himself and/or to the reader/audience. An opportunity for the reader to to know a character's inner thoughts |
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