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Literature in English

Literary Devices & Techniques

Key Points

  • Simile uses "like/as"; Metaphor is a direct comparison
  • Personification: human qualities to non-human things
  • Alliteration: same initial consonant; Assonance: same vowel sound
  • Dramatic irony: audience knows what characters do not
  • Soliloquy: character speaks thoughts aloud alone on stage

Practice Questions

3 questions
1

"The classroom was a zoo." This is an example of:

2

When the audience knows something that the characters in a play do not know, this is called:

3

The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words in a phrase is called:

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