Literary Devices 1-5 Flashcards
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Allegory
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A narrative that serves as an extended metaphor. Allegories are written in the form of fables,parables,poems,stories, and almost any other style or genre.
2
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Alliteration
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A pattern of sounds that includes the repetition of constant sounds.
3
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Allusion
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A reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature.
4
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Anastrophe
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A figure of speech in which the syntactically correct order of a subject, verb, and object is changed.
5
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Anaphora
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A rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginning of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis.
