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Understanding Literary Devices: Enhancing Your Writing and Analysis Skills

This guide explores essential literary devices, including similes, metaphors, personification, and tone, that authors use to enrich their writing. Learn how these elements create emotional atmospheres, highlight themes, and influence readers' feelings. The guide also delves into organization styles, such as chronological and spatial arrangements, and the use of context clues for deciphering unfamiliar words. Ideal for students and aspiring writers, this comprehensive overview will enhance your appreciation for literature while improving your analytical abilities.

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Understanding Literary Devices: Enhancing Your Writing and Analysis Skills

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  1. Comparison of two things with “like” or “as” • Simile

  2. the attitude of the author toward the subject within a literary work OR the attitude of the author toward the reader • Tone

  3. giving human characteristics to an object • Personification

  4. emotional atmosphere; how a story makes the reader feel • Mood

  5. comparison of two unlike terms WITHOUT “like” or “as” • Metaphor

  6. repeating certain words, phrases, or sentences for emphasis • Repetition

  7. repetition of initial sounds in a series of words • Alliteration

  8. vivid words that appeal to the senses • Imagery

  9. extreme exaggeration • Hyperbole

  10. message of a story; insight or truth revealed • Theme

  11. What are some examples of the author’s purpose? • To explain or inform • To persuade • To entertain

  12. What are some ways to organize text? • Chronologically • Spatially (Example: Describe a room from the ceiling to the floor OR floor to ceiling.) • Cause and Effect • Examples

  13. What is a context clue? • Context clues are words in a sentence or nearby sentence that help you figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word. They may be synonyms, antonyms, examples, etc.

  14. Chrom • Color

  15. Leuko • White

  16. Sequ • Follow

  17. Mem • Remember

  18. Labor • Work

  19. Shape • Form

  20. Gress • Step

  21. Phyll • Leaf

  22. Pleo • More

  23. Soror • Sister

  24. Dom • Rule

  25. Schizo • Divide

  26. Sta • Stop

  27. Frat • Brother

  28. Pod • Foot

  29. Val • Worth

  30. Sapro • Rotten

  31. Hippo • Horse

  32. Vol • Will

  33. Tox • Poison

  34. Admonish • to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty • synonyms: warn, call on the carpet

  35. Alien • A citizen of another country; foreign, strange • synonyms: exotic, unfamiliar

  36. Comely • Having a pleasing appearance • synonyms: good-looking, attractive, bonny

  37. Erratic • Not regular or consistent; different from what is ordinarily expected; undependable • synonyms: irregular, inconsistent, unpredictable

  38. Abridge • To make shorter • synonyms: shorten, condense, abbreviate

  39. Altercation • An angry argument • synonyms: quarrel, dispute, squabble

  40. Cherubic • Resembling an angel portrayed as a little child with a beautiful, round, or chubby face; sweet and innocent • synonyms: angelic, seraphic, beatific

  41. Condone • To pardon or overlook • synonyms: ignore, wink at, turn a blind eye to

  42. Eminent • Famous, outstanding, distinguished; projecting • synonyms: illustrious, renowned

  43. Fabricate • To make, manufacture; to make up, invent • synonyms: put together, devise, contrive, concoct

  44. Irate • angry • synonyms: incensed, infuriated, enraged, livid

  45. Marauder • A raider, plunderer • synonyms: looter, pirate, freebooter

  46. Pauper • An extremely poor person • synonyms: destitute person

  47. Pilfer • To steal in small quantities • synonyms: filch, rob, swipe, purloin

  48. Rift • A split, break, breach • synonyms: crack, fissure, gap, cleft

  49. Surmount • To overcome, rise above • synonyms: conquer, triumph over

  50. Trite • Commonplace; overused, stale • synonyms: banal, hackneyed, corny

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