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

Foreshadowing

Name that literary device

Simile

Name that sound device

Rhyme

Giving human characteristics to non-human things

personification

Challenge: Name that literary device

Idiom

Contrasting two things or ideas by putting them right next to each other

juxtaposition

A reference (usually indirect) to another well-known historical or literary work, event, or figure

allusion

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Allusion

Repeating the first words in a group of sentences

anaphora

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Parallelism

Challenge: An exaggeration

hyperbole

Challenge: Name that literary device

Hyperbole

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Consonance

Using a part of something to metaphorically represent the whole thing

synecdoche

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Personification

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

symbolism

When the ending sounds of words are the same

rhyme

Challenge: Name that sound effect

Assonance

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

metaphor

Challenge: Repeating vowel sounds (for stylistic effect)

assonance

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Alliteration

Using the same grammar structure for stylistic effect

parallelism

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Anaphora (with Parallelism)

When words use the same consonant sound (for stylictic effect)

consonance

Challenge: Vivid descriptions that show rather than tell

imagery

A clue for something that will happen later in the story

foreshadowing

Name that literary device

Juxtaposition (and Parallelism)

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

simile

When words begin with the same sound

alliteration

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

idiom

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Metaphor

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Symbolism

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Synecdoche