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LITERARY DEVICES

STRUCTURES WRITERS USE TO CONVEY A MESSAGE
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Figurative language - uses words or expressions different from the literal meaning.

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SIMILIE

COMPARES TWO DIFFERENT OBJECTS USING "LIKE" OR "AS"
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Metaphor - compares two different objects without using "like" or "as"
Ex. The snow is a white blanket.

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Personification - gives a thing, ides, or an animal human qualities
Ex. The flowers are dancing in the breeze.

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Hyperbole - exaggeration of actions and ideas
Ex. Your backpack weighs a ton!!

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Alliteration - words having the same beginning sound
Ex. Better butter bakes batter better.

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Imagery - words or pictures that create a mental image for the reader often using the five senses.

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Theme - life lesson, meaning, moral, or message about life or human nature that is communicated through a literacy work
Ex. Good triumphs evil.

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STANZA

A GROUP OF RELATED LINES IN A POEM
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RHYMING WORDS

WORDS THAT END WITH THE SAME SOUND, EX. OCEAN, MOTION
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LIMERICK

A HUMOROUS FIVE LINE POEM
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Haiku - a three line poem with 17 syllables in a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.

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Assonance - repetition of vowel sounds
Ex. She feeds the deer.

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Analogy - a likeness between two things that are not alike
Ex. Wings of a bird and the arms of a person.

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Symbolism - a concrete thing that is meant to represent something else.
Ex. Our flag represents the U.S.A.

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