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You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” —Roald Dahl, The Twits  \nAnalogy  \nAn analogy compares one thing to something else to help explain a similarity that might not be easy to see.  \nExample: In The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan compares the universe’s entire history with a single Earth year to better demonstrate the context of when major events occurred; i.e. , the Earth formed on September 9, humans first appeared at 10:30 p. m. on December 31.  \nAnthropomorphism  \nAnthropomorphism is when non-human things like animals or objects act human, exhibiting traits such as speech, thoughts, complex emotions, and sometimes even wearing clothes and standing upright.  \nExample: While most fairy tales feature animals that act like humans, the Beauty and the Beast films anthropomorphize household objects: talking clocks, singing teapots, and more.  \nAntithesis  \nAntithesis places two contrasting and polarized sentiments next to each other in order to accent both.  \nExample: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” —Neil Armstrong  \nColloquialism  \nColloquialism is using casual and informal speech, including slang, in formal writing to make dialogue seem more realistic and authentic. It often incorporates respelling words and adding apostrophes to communicate the pronunciation.  \nExample: “How you doin’?” asked Friends character Joey Tribbiani.  \nCircumlocution  \nCircumlocution is when the writer deliberately uses excessive words and overcomplicated sentence structures to intentionally convolute their meaning. In other words, it means to write lengthily and confusingly on purpose.  \nExample: In Shrek the Third, Pinocchio uses circumlocution to avoid giving an honest answer to the Prince’s question.  \nEuphemism  \nA euphemism is a soft and inoffensive word or phrase that replaces a harsh, unpleasant, or hurtful one for the sake of sympathy or civility.  \nExample: Euphemisms like “passed away” and “downsizing” are quite common in everyday speech, but a good example in literature comes from Harry Potter, where the wizarding community refers to the villain Voldemort as “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named” in fear of invoking him.  \nHyperbole  \nHyperbole is using exaggeration to add more power to what you’re saying, often to an unrealistic or unlikely degree.  \nExample: “I had to wait in the station for ten days—an eternity.” —Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness  \nImagery  \nImagery refers to writing that invokes the reader’s senses with descriptive word choice to create a more vivid and realistic recreation of the scene in their mind.  \nExample: “The barn was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it smelled of manure. It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows. It often had a sort of peaceful smell as though nothing bad could happen ever again in the world.” —E. B. White, Charlotte’s Web  \nMetaphor  \nSimilar to an analogy, a metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things to show their similarities by insisting that they’re the same.  \nExample:  \n“All the world’s a stage,  \nAnd all the men and women merely players;  \nThey have their exits and their entrances,  \nAnd one man in his time plays many parts  ”  \n—William Shakespeare, ","cbCaibIj9VzEfY2Q","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibIj9VzEfY2Q","pdf",96631,"English","# Key Vocabulary List\n## Literary Devices and Definitions","[{\"question\":\"What is alliteration and how is it used in literature?\",\"answer\":\"Alliteration is the use of a sequence of words that begin with the same letter or sound for a poetic or whimsical effect, often creating a memorable pattern of sound.\"},{\"question\":\"How does amplification differ from other descriptive techniques?\",\"answer\":\"Amplification embellishes a simple sentence with more details to increase its significance, expanding meaning through added description rather than direct comparison.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the difference between anthropomorphism and personification?\",\"answer\":\"Anthropomorphism attributes human traits to non-human things as if they truly act like humans, while personification attributes human characteristics figuratively, such as to weather or objects.\"}]","A Level Literature Key Vocabulary List - 20 Literary Devices | PDF",1790625317,18]