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Literary Devices

Try this matching game to see if you know your literary devices!!

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allusion	reference to something in prior literature or history
simile	comparison using like or as
metaphor	comparison that does not use like or as
personification	giving human qualities to unliving things
apostrophe	addressing the deceased or an inanimate object as if it were alive and could answer
irony	a discrepency
hyperbole	an exaggeration
alliteration	when two words near each other have the same beginning consonant sound
imagery	figurative language that makes us see, smell, hear, taste, and/or touch
onomatopoeia	use of a word or words whose sounds imitate the sound of the thing spoken about