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English 33 Public

Name the literary device used or described

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A comparison using "like" or "as" to signal the figurative nature of the comparison

simile

A comparison (without "like" or "as" to signal it's figurative)

metaphor

Giving human characteristics to non-human things

personification

Challenge: An exaggeration

hyperbole

A clue for something that will happen later in the story

foreshadowing

Challenge: Vivid descriptions that show rather than tell

imagery

Challenge: Name that literary device

Hyperbole

Challenge: Name that literary device

Idiom

Name that literary device

Simile

Name that literary device

Metaphor

Name that literary device

Personification

A "saying" (that makes no sense literally and often not too much sense figuratively)

idiom

Challenge: Name that literary device (hint: people's greed for the pearl eventually destroys them)

Foreshadowing

Name that literary device

Symbolism

A concrete thing (or person/place) is used to represent something abstract

symbolism

Repeating the first words in a group of sentences

anaphora