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Literary Devices II
Read the example of a literary device and find the word that describes it.
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| simile | hot as a furnace |
| personification | The butterfly danced across the stage. |
| alliteration | fast Freddy frog |
| metaphor | The quarterback fired a bullet down the field. |
| allusion | Poe refers to "The Night's Plutonian Shore" in "The Raven" |
| verbal irony | I called my friend who failed a test the brain of the class. |
| hyperbole | I walked a million miles. |
| situational irony | In "The Monkey's Paw" no one expected someone to die to earn the money. |
| onomatopoeia | bang, pop, hiss |
| dramatic irony | In "Diary of Anne Frank" the audience knows Anne will die. |
| rhyme | Red, bed, said, fed |
| aphorism | Time heals all wounds. |
| idiom | He is all ears. |
| dialect | Howdy, y'all. |
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