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Quarterly Exam Q1 Literary Elements & Devices 5
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| allegory | A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning may have moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas such as charity, greed, or envy |
| symbolism | A device in literature where an object represents an idea. |
| dialect | A variety of a language distinct from the standard variety in pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary |
| allusion | An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place, or event. |
| irony | the use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or usual meaning; incongruity between the actual result of a sequence |
| example of dialect | Well, thish-yer Smiley had rat-tarriers, and chicken cocks, and tom- cats, and all of them kind of things, till you couldn't rest, and you couldn't fetch nothing for him to bet on but he'd match you. |
| example of allusion from Twain's piece | Andrew Jackson |
| example of allegory | Animal Farm |
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