Writing in the Classroom: Introductory: Literary Devices

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  1. literary
    relating to or characteristic of creative writing
  2. rhetorical device
    a use of language that creates a literary effect
  3. figure of speech
    language used in a nonliteral sense
  4. literal
    limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text
  5. figurative
    not literal
  6. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  7. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  8. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  9. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  10. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
  11. sensory
    involving or derived from the senses
  12. symbolism
    the practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning
  13. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  14. irony
    incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
  15. personification
    representing an abstract quality or idea as a human
Created on Wed Jul 27 13:17:07 EDT 2022 (updated Tue Aug 02 12:03:57 EDT 2022)

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