Writers move - literary devices

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Alliteration

repetition of a sound at the start of each word in a sentence

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allusion

Refers to a well-known story event person or object to show comparison analogue

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Analogy

Comparison for two things by showing similarities

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Anaphora

Repetition of words after each phrase

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anecdote

Spell interesting story about a real life incident

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Hyperbole

Exaggeration for statement

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Irony verbal

Sarcasm to express humour

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juxtaposition

Uses to ideas, places, character, characters, side-by-side to show contrast or comparison

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Metaphor

Uses two things to show contrast without like or as

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Onomatopoeia

Words that sound the same as the spelling

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Oxymoron

Two opposite words used together

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Personification

Adding human like creatures to something to express emotions

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Rhetorical questions

Questions not meant to be answered

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Simile

Comparison by using two ideas with like or as

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anadiplosis

using the last word of a sentence to start a new one

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anatanclasis

Using word twice, but having different meanings in sentence

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antithesis

Two opposite ideas put together to contrast

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chiasmus

Repeating the same phrase, but then flipping a keyword

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epistrophe

Repeating the same words at the end of each phrase/statement

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irony dramatic

When the viewers know more than people in the situation

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irony situational

Something that is expected to happen, but something else happens

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Parallel structure

Use phrases/causes together in order to make good balance

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Paradox

Statement that means opposite showing the truth in parallel structure

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synecdoche

Part of a word used to be used to represent the whole or the opposite

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syllepsis

Use a word applied to two other senses

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Understatement

Something being worse than expect

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zeugma

A word that is used to two other meanings, but is different for both and unlogical