alliteration - use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word, alllusion - passing reference or indirect mention, anology - drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity (more developed), cliche - a trite or obvious remark, contradiction - opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas , flashback - transition in a sotry to an earlier event or scene, foreshadowing - the act of providing vague advance indications, hyberbole - great exaggeration, irony - incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs, oxymoron - conjoined contradictory terms. ex. civil war, paradox - a statement that contradicts iteself, personification - representing an abstract quality of a human being, pun - make a play on words, repetition - the continued use of the same word or word pattern, sarcasm - witty language used to convey insults or scorn, satire - literary genre that uses humor to ridicule human failings or vices, metaphor - figures of speech that suggests a non-literal meaning, similie - a figure of speech expressing resemblance between things using like or as , symbolism - an object that represents something beyond iteself, understatement - something said in a restrained way for ironic contrast,

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