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    Literary devices are techniques that authors use to make their writing more interesting, such as alliteration, hyperbole, metaphor, personification, simile, oxymoron, repetition, pun, symbol, and paradox. Alliteration is the repeated consonant sound at the beginning of words. Hyperbole exaggerates using extremes. A metaphor compares two unlike things, while a simile compares two similar things. Personification gives human characteristics. Repetition restates a word or phrase. A pun uses a word with multiple meanings. A symbol represents abstract ideas. A paradox contradicts itself.

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    Literary devices are techniques that authors use to make their writing more interesting, such as alliteration, hyperbole, metaphor, personification, simile, oxymoron, repetition, pun, symbol, and paradox. Alliteration is the repeated consonant sound at the beginning of words. Hyperbole exaggerates using extremes. A metaphor compares two unlike things, while a simile compares two similar things. Personification gives human characteristics. Repetition restates a word or phrase. A pun uses a word with multiple meanings. A symbol represents abstract ideas. A paradox contradicts itself.

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    Literary Devices Explained

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    Literary devices are techniques that authors use to make their writing more interesting, such as alliteration, hyperbole, metaphor, personification, simile, oxymoron, repetition, pun, symbol, and paradox. Alliteration is the repeated consonant sound at the beginning of words. Hyperbole exaggerates using extremes. A metaphor compares two unlike things, while a simile compares two similar things. Personification gives human characteristics. Repetition restates a word or phrase. A pun uses a word with multiple meanings. A symbol represents abstract ideas. A paradox contradicts itself.

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    Literary Devices

    Definition Examples

    A special technique that an Repeated consonant sound occurring at the


    author used to make a Alliteration
    beginning of words.
    piece of writing more
    interesting to the reader. A description which exaggerates , usually employing
    Hyperbole
    extremes to convey a positive or negative attribute.

    Metaphor A comparison between two unlike things.

    Personification A figure of speech that give human characteristic

    Making a comparison between two things that are


    Simile
    similar
    Oxymoron A contradiction in term

    Where a specific word, phrase, or structure is


    Repetition
    repeated several time.

    Pun A humerous use of a word or phrase suggesting two


    or more meaning at the same time.

    Symbol The use of specific objects or image to represent


    abstract ideas.

    Paradox Where a situation is created which cannot possibly


    exist, because different elements of it cancel each
    other out

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