STAAR English I: Literary Devices and Figures of Speech

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  1. figurative
    not literal
  2. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
  3. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  4. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  5. oxymoron
    conjoined contradictory terms
  6. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  7. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  8. satire
    a literary genre that uses humor to ridicule human failings and vices
  9. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  10. symbolism
    the practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning
Created on Wed May 19 10:01:01 EDT 2021 (updated Wed May 19 10:36:46 EDT 2021)

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