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Literary Device Chart A Simile is a figure of speech that compares two things that have something in common using a word such as like or as. A Metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two things that have something in common. For example, “Her hair was midnight and her eyes were the dawning of an autumn day.” Personification is a figure of speech in which an object, animal, or idea is given human characteristics. Imagery is the descriptive words and phrases that a writer uses to re-create sensory experiences. By appealing to the five senses, imagery helps a reader imagine exactly what the characters and experiences being described are like. Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement that is not supposed to be taken literally. For example, “There were millions of people at the game.” Irony is a term that refers to a contrast between appearance and reality (sometimes humorously) in which an apparently straightforward statement or event is undermined by its context so as to give it a very different significance. Verbal irony involves a discrepancy between what is said and what is really meant. Structural irony involves the use of a naive or deluded hero or unreliable narrator whose view of the world differs widely from the true circumstances recognized by the author and readers. In dramatic irony, the audience knows more about a character's situation than a character does, foreseeing an outcome contrary to a character's expectations, and thus ascribing a sharply different sense to the character's own statements.

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Personification

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Hyperbole

Irony

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