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Sound-Effect Words
Onomatopoeia
Words in a sequence or close proximity having the same internal vowel sound.
Assonance
Words in sequence or close proximity that each end with the same consonant sound.
Consonance
Same initial letter or letter blends sounds which occur close together.
Alliteration
A hint at a future event in a plot.
Foreshadowing
Conflict between two or more different groups.
Conflict Grouping
Overstate or exaggerate things to make a point.
Hyperbole
Use figures of speech or expression that are common or overused.
Cliche
A word or phrase not taken literally, often using figurative language.
Idiom
Words pictures that appeal to the senses, evoking feeling and mood.
Imagery
Use words"Like" or "As" in making comparisons between two or more dissimilar things.
Simile
Inanimate objects as lifelike or human.
Personification
Direct comparison between 2 dissimilar things without the words "Like" or "As" used to convert feeling
Metaphor
Ends words or lines with the some final syllabic sounds to create a musical quality within the text.
Rhyme
Words of the character or narrator offer information that contradicts what you've already discovered to be true about a character's circumstances, character, or thoughts.
Irony
Reference to literature, historical events, culture, or well-know ideas.
Allusion
Objects, persons, pictures things to represent an idea, virtue, or philosophy
Symbolism
Intentionally represent things in a language that is less strong than the situation or thing for rhetorical effect.
Understatement
Combining 2 normally contradictory words or ideas for the sake of making some wise insight.
Oxymoron
Suggests a hidden meaning via the use of metaphoric examples.
Allegory
Writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it increase its worth and understand-ability.
A form of wordplay in which letters of a word or phrase are rearranged to create a new word to infuse mystery, or humor.
Amplification
Anagram
A literary device that helps to establish a relationship based on similarities between 2 concepts or ideas.
A short verbal account of funny, amusing, interesting event or incident usually a reminiscence form the teller's life or a related story of fact.
Analogy
Anecdote
A scheme in which strongly contrasting or opposing ideas are expressed in parallel from.
Antithesis
A step by step process where an author describes a character Either Directly or through actions, speech, or thoughts.
Characterization
The associations people make with words that go beyond the literal or dictionary definition.
Connotation