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Literary Techniques
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- a series of words or phrases that all (or almost all) start with the same sound/letter.
- When an author refers to the events or characters from another story in his/her own story
- When a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of multiple sentences throughout a piece of writing.
- When a writer wishes to describe some graphic or offensive event using milder imagery or phrasing.
- When an author hints at the ending of or at an upcoming event in her story.
- An exaggerated statement that's not meant to be taken literally by the reader.
- When an author chooses sensory details for the associations or tones they evoke.
- The comparing and contrasting of two or more different (usually opposite) ideas, characters, objects, etc.
- When attempting to describe an image or event, an author often will find it useful to compare what he/she is d
- This is a word (or group of words) that represents a sound and actually resembles or imitates the sound.
- A type of metaphor in which describes and object, or character using "like" or "as".
- Alliteration
- Onomatopoeia
- Hyperbole
- Simile
- Metaphor
- a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear next to one another
- Oxymoron
- It creates contrast between how things seem and how they really are
- It involves a character speaking their thoughts aloud, usually at length (and often in a Shakespeare play).
- Something that recurs throughout the novel and helps develop the theme of the narrative.
- Uses human traits to describe non-human things.
- Personification
- The mode of narration in a story.
- A technique that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable.
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