| A | B |
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| metaphor | Students are sailors on a journey. |
| simile | The moon hung like a light bulb in the sky. |
| alliteration | Mike's mean mother meant well. |
| repetition | Without a dream, without faith, without hope, there is nothing. |
| imagery | The bruise on her arm was purple at top, blue at center, and the size of a dime. |
| personification | Your homework will rise up and bite you if you put it off. |
| situational irony | The doctor's office closed down due to illness. |
| dead metaphor or cliche | It's as dark as night outside. |
| rhetorical questioning | Have you ever wondered how the stars got in the sky? Have you ever wished on a star? |
| rhyme | I love that glove; where did you get it? |
| understatement | The tornado made the task of driving a bit more difficult. |
| hyperbole | I've told you a billion times to clean this room! |
| oxymoron | jumbo shrimp |
| foreshadowing | details that hint at what is to come |
| analogy | For answers successfully arrived at are solutions to difficulties previously discussed, and one cannot untie a knot if he is ignorant of it. -- |
| enumeration | I love her eyes, her hair, her nose, her cheeks, her lips |
| foil | contrasting and opposing characters |
| flashback | A device that allows the writer to present events that happened before the time of the current narration or the current events in the fiction. Various methods can be used, including memories, dream sequences, stories or narration by characters, or even authorial sovereignty |
| onomatopoeia | Moo, quack, smack, bleet. |
| mood,tone,or attitude | Morose,macabre,grim,gothic - these words describe the ____ of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." |
| stereotype | A flat character which is known by its familiar characteristics. |
| 1st person point of view | In "Gulliver's Travels," Swift uses this by making the main character the actual narrator. |
| epiphany | There's a wonderful moment in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy realizes that she has had the power to return home all along. |
| round character | Numerous details help make the character seem real and fully developed. |
| pun | How did the street get into town? He RODE. |
