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LITERARY DEVICES

Published on Dec 20, 2015

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LITERARY DEVICES

Literary Devices

The cow jumped over the moon.

Allusion

The cow jumped over the moon.

The cat hopped like a frog, and barked like a dog.

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Paradox

The cat hopped like a frog, and barked like a dog.
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They both have their mother's hair.

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Analogy

They both have their mother's hair.

When she came home, she smelt like a wet dog.

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Olfactory

When she came home, she smelt like a wet dog.
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The scalloped potatoes tasted cheesy.

Gustatory

The scalloped potatoes tasted cheesy.
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She saw a man being brutally beaten.

Visual

She saw a man being brutally beaten.
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He tried to touch my hair that was curled.

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Tactile

He tried to touch my hair that was curled.

I heard my mother speaking to someone about me on the phone.

AUDITORY

I heard my mother speaking to someone about me on the phone.
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They all looked parallel as the stood in lines, side by side.

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Parallelism

They all looked parallel as the stood in lines, side by side.
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I like the potatoes and they liked the potatoes too.

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ANAPHORA

I like the potatoes and they liked the potatoes too.
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The literal or primary meaning of a word.

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DENOTATION

The literal or primary meaning of a word.

an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

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an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

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