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| 5326834943 | Euphemism | Online Example: Passed away instead of died examples.yourdictionary.com My Example: Split up instead of break up | 0 | |
| 5326873144 | Exposition | Online Example: The U.S. flag consists of thirteen alternating stripes of red and blue, representing the 13 original states. In the top left of the flag there is a field of blue with fifty stars, one for each state. examples.yourdictionary.com My Example: There once was a girl named Georgette and she lived in a town called Hillside Creek. She was an orphan and roamed the streets all day because she didn't have a home. | 1 | |
| 5326836239 | Extended Metaphor | Online Example: "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief." (From "Romeo and Juliet" By William Shakespeare) examples.yourdictionary.com My Example: Oh Mushroom, your top is the seat and your bottom is the base. Your seat is the perfect pillow for a frog of my size. Your height as it varies makes it a perfect ladder to see over the bushes. Your fungi friends are step stones to climb your immaculate ladder. | 2 | |
| 5326882914 | Figurative Language | Online Example: The poorest man is the richest, and the rich are poor. examples.yourdictionary.com My Example: Most often, respected people have little respect for themselves while the most disrespected people have the most. | 3 | |
| 5326882915 | Flashback | Online Example: In a story about a man who acts strangely and rue, there is a flashback to a scene of war, in which this man was a soldier. softschools.com My Example: Sometimes while interacting with people, I remember past experiences with them. | 4 | |
| 5326882916 | Genre | Online Example: Ghost stories are stories where the dead return to life and haunt the living, such as Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Sometimes the ghosts are trying to teach the living a lesson. examples.yourdictionary.com My Example: Comedy is an important genre. "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is an example of this genre. | 5 | |
| 5326890166 | Homily | Online Example: "He is not only able to cast wicked men into hell, but he can most easily do it. Sometimes an earthly prince meets with a great deal of difficulty to subdue a rebel that has found means to fortify himself...So 'tis easy for us to cut or singe a slender thread that anything hangs by; thus easy is it for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell. What are we, that we should think to stand before him, at whose rebuke the earth trembles, and before whom the rocks are thrown down." literarydevices.net My Example: The sermon we read in class | 6 | |
| 5326890167 | Hyperbole | Online Example: My grandmother is as old as the hills. literarydevices.net My Example: But she's like a thousand years old! | 7 | |
| 5326890168 | Imagery | Online Example: It was dark and dim in the forest. literarydevices.net My Example: The vibrant lights danced around the room. | 8 | |
| 5326892537 | Inductive Reasoning | Online Example: All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal. examples.yourdictionary.com My Example: Bears have sharp claws. Sharp claws hurt. Bears are dangerous. | 9 | |
| 5326892538 | Inference | Online Example: "It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete." literarydevices.net My Example: I can infer that because my eyes are heavy, I am tired. | 10 | |
| 5326892539 | Irony | Online Example: The name of Britain's biggest dog was "Tiny". literarydevices.net My Example: The custodian's car was messy. | 11 | |
| 5326894289 | Isocolon | Online Example: Good we must love, and must hate ill, For ill is ill, and good good still; But there are things indifferent, Which we may neither hate, nor love, But one, and then another prove, As we shall find our fancy bent... (Community by John Donne) literarydevices.net My Example: "I came, I saw, I conquered" | 12 | |
| 5326900479 | Jargon | Online Example: Getting on a soapbox literarydevices.net My Example: Our robot has the ability to strafe. | 13 |
