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Directions: Watch the video, fill in the blanks with definitions

What can literary elements do? Make your writing relevant
Simile: comparasion using like or as
Alliteration: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely

connected words.
Metaphor:
1.a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something towhich it is not literally applicabl
e in order to suggest a resemblance, asin A mighty fortress is our God.
2.something used, or regarded as being used, to represent somethingelse; emblem; symbol.
Onomatopoeia: the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Imagery: words used to create a mental image
Hyperbole : exaggeration

Allusion: reference to something else

Personification : giving human attributes to a non-human
Symbol : something representing something else
Irony : irony is a twist or reversal in our expections, often with humorous or meaningful effect.
Oxymoron : combination of two words that contradict each other, examples: pretty ugly, jumbo shrimp
Satire: making fun or someone or something in human nature, often political in nature.
Sarcastic : form of irony, to say something you dont really mean
Symbolism: the practice of representing things with symbols
Anthropomorphism:the attribution of human form or behaviour to a deity, animal, etc
Euphemism : substituting one phrase for another
Rhythm: patterned use of some element in writing