| A | B |
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| Oxymoron | My room is an organized mess, or controlled chaos, if you will. Same difference. |
| Symbolism | symbols are often characters, settings, images, or other motifs that stand in for bigger ideas |
| Alliteration | Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers. |
| Personification | The tired old car coughed and weezed and crawled down the street. |
| Theme | central idea, topic, or point of a story, essay, or narrative is its theme |
| Simile | “She smiles like the sun” is a simile, as it compares a woman with something of a different kind- the sun. |
| Metaphor | She was a rock star at our last business presentation. |
| Irony | A popular visual representation of irony shows a seagull sitting on top of a “no seagulls” sign. The meaning of the sign is that seagulls are not allowed in the area. The seagull sitting on the sign not only contradicts it, but calls attention to the absurdity of trying to dictate where seagulls may or may not go, which makes us laugh. |
| Imagery | The night was black as ever, but bright stars lit up the sky in beautiful and varied constellations which were sprinkled across the astronomical landscape. |
| Inference | The author gives us clues about what’s going on, and we have to figure things out based on that evidence. The author implies; the readers infer. |
| Internal Conflict | when a character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs. |
| External Conflict | sets a character against something or someone beyond their control. |
| analogy | a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. |
