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Using extreme exaggeration
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Hyperbole?
using descriptive language and/or literary devices to help the reader create a picture in their head
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imagery?
The stale bread was as hard as a rock.
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Simile?
A word that is the name of something (person, place, thing, animal, idea, etc.) and is usually used in a sentence as a subject
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A noun?
Giving human qualities to an object or animal
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Personification?
Comparing two objects in an absolute way/without using like or as
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Metaphor?
The car lights blinked in the distance.
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Personification?
When someone says, “what nice weather we’re having!” during a blizzard
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Verbal irony?
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Sarcasm?
A word that expresses an action
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A verb?
The repetition of a beginning consonant sound in words that are close together
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Alliteration?
to explain/teach, persuade, share a lesson or moral, or entertain
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Author's purpose?
It was so cold outside, I thought I would die. (Could it really have been THAT cold?)
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Hyperbole?
“After the Huntsman came back with Snow White’s heart in a box, the Queen asked the mirror again who was the fairest in the land; to her dismay, the mirror said, “It is still Snow White my dear”.”
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Foreshadowing?
A word (such as I, he, she, you, it, we, or they) that is used instead of a noun
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A pronoun?
A literary element that places contrasting characters or ideas close together to highlight their differences or similarities
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Juxtaposition?
The specific choice of use of words and phrases in writing or speeches.
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Diction?
Political cartoons use ______ to poke fun at or comment on political figures and movements.
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Satire?
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An allegory?
A word that describes a noun or a pronoun
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An adjective?
When the readers and characters expect one thing to happen, but something very different occurs instead
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Situational irony?
when a piece of visual or narrative media uses one thing to “stand in for” a different, hidden idea
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An allegory?
In a horror movie when the audience knows the killer is around the corner that the unsuspecting main character is about to walk around
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Dramatic irony?
The color red in “The Scarlet Ibis” signifies that themes of pride/guilt, and beauty/tragedy
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Motif?
A word that describes a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or a sentence and that is often used to show time, manner, place, or degree
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An adverb?