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Literary Devices

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    Literaray Devices
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  • What literary device is demonstrated here: 'He is Romeo to her Juliet.'
    Allusion.
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  • 'We shall fight in France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans. We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall never surrender.’
    Anaphora
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  • In the first scene of "Othello," we are introduced to Roderigo and Iago, who expresses anger over Othello's failure to promote him. We learn that Desdemona's father is a senator with the power to punish Othello for his "stealing" Desdemona.
    Exposition
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  • She put the key in her pocket. 'Who knows?' she said. 'Maybe this will be useful one day.'
    Foreshadowing
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  • 'Wow. What a beautiful day.'
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  • What perspective is this: Josh was worried about the test, but Mara wasn't. Angela hadn't even remembered it was happening. And Luke? Well, Luke was already planning how to fake an illness so he could avoid going to school the next day.
    Omniscient narrator
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  • 'What am I even doing here?' sighed Jack.
    Rhetorical question
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  • 'They think they’re crAzy but thEy ain‘t crAzy lets fAce it...'
    Assonance.
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  • Sadly, last Thursday, old Grandpa Brown went to a 'better place.'
    Euphemism
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  • I was so hungry I ate five burgers
    Exaggeration
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  • She died of embarrassment
    Hyperbole
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  • When an audience knows more than the character does. EG: Othello believes Desdemona is unfaithful to him, but the audience knows she is not.
    Dramatic irony
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  • A comparison between two things which are quite different. Doesn't use 'as' or 'like'. EG: 'There's daggers in men's smiles.'
    Metaphor
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  • Comparing two things that are not really like each other, using 'like' or 'as'. EG: My love is like a red, red rose.
    Simile
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  • A statement that seems impossible because it contains two opposing ideas that are both true. eg: In this rich country, there is a lot of poverty.
    Paradox
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  • A group of lines in a poem (like a 'paragraph' in prose)
    Stanza
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