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Imagery
descriptive language that can function as a way for the reader to better imagine the world of the piece of literature and also add symbolism to the work
types of imagery
Visual imagery
Auditory imagery
Olfactory imagery
Gustatory imagery
Tactile imagery
Visual imagery
sight
Auditory imagery
hearing
Olfactory imagery
smell
Gustatory imagery
taste
Tactile imagery
touch
Persona
from the Latin word “mask of an actor,”
Persona
fictitious character created by the poet to serve as the “voice” of the poem to represent the thoughts of the writer
Figures of Speech
expression that is not meant to be read literally
simile
use of a word such as like or as to compare seemingly unlike things
Metaphor
Direct Comparison between things
Personification
a type of metaphor that attributes human like characteristics to an animal, object, or idea.
Onomatopoeia
Sounds
Hyperbole
figure of speech in which great exaggeration is used for emphasis or humorous effect
Metonymy
substituting mundane, ordinary objects or expression with words or other phrases to give more poetic effect
Oxymoron
putting together two opposite ideas in one statement.
Apostrophe
addressing an abstract thing or concept, or some dead or absent person as though it were present or a live.
Alliteration
a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series
Assonance
takes place when two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start a different consonant sounds.
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