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literary devices list 4

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- A short literary composition on a particular theme or subject usually written in prose.

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Author’s Purpose

- An author’s reason for writing: to inform, to persuade, to narrate

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A question to which an answer is not expected or already known

Rhetorical Question

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Propaganda

-Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.

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Parallel structure

- involves two or more words, phrases, or clauses that are similar in length and grammatical form.

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Cliché

- An overused expression that has lost its originality. “I thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

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Synonym

- Words that mean the same thing or almost the same thing

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In poetry a phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated.

Refrain

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Two lines that rhyme

Couplet

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Stanza

- A “chunk” or group of lines in poetry

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Rhyme scheme

- The rhyme pattern found in a poem

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Antonym

- A word opposite in meaning to another (good and bad)

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