| A | B |
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| Allusion | In Animal Farm, the leader of the animals is a monarchic pig name Napoleon. |
| Alliteration | Lusious lemon lollipops |
| Generalizations | All movies are boring |
| Hyperbole | The building was a million stories high. |
| Imagery | A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep red cloth . . . Jane Eyre |
| Irony | In Home Alone Kevin was able to thwart two robbers. Viewers would expect the opposite to happen |
| Metaphor | The clouds were cotton puffs floating in the sky |
| Personification | Flowers danced on the lawn. |
| Satire | In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift ridicules the absurd manners and traditions of the British |
| Simile | I wandered lonely as a cloud |
| point of view | the vantage point from which the story is told |
| theme | a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work |
| tone | the attitude of the author toward the audience and characters |
