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LITERARY DEVICES - Coggle Diagram
LITERARY DEVICES
Sound effect
Consonance
- Repetition of a consonant sound
-Eg: fuddy, duddy, pitter, patter
Onomatopoeia
Buzz, Bang, Tick-Tock
Assonance
- Repetition of vowel sound.
Alliteration
- Repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of a word
-Eg: Sam saw something spooky.
Simile
- Compare with "as, like"
-Eg: Life is like a box of chocolate.
Antithesis
- Two opposing elements
Eg: Go big or go home.
Metonymy
- Closely associated terms.
Eg: The White House
Personification
- Human-like -> non-humanlike.
Eg: Squatting in the corner was a felt chair
Pun : a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word
Eg :A pessimist's blood type is always B-negative.
Oxymoron
- Opposing and/or contradictory.
Eg: Same difference.
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Metaphor
- Compare
Eg: Life - highway
Climax
- Range of word .
: Romeo and Juliet.
Transferred epithet:
- Modifiers.
E.g. "I had a wonderful day"
Paradox: appears at first to be contradictory,but upon reflection then makes sense
Eg : youth is wasted on the young.
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Understatement : less important, less valuable
Eg : Her video is not bad
Euphemism
- Avoid actual terms.
E.g. Friends with benefits