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Metaphor, simile, hyperbole, oxymoron and other devices, each with its definition. 47 cards. Tap a card to flip it.

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Sources

  • Primary source Literary Terms (Purdue OWL) (Purdue Online Writing Lab, Purdue University, owl.purdue.edu)
  • Primary source Ear Training: Sound and Meter (Purdue OWL) (Purdue Online Writing Lab, Purdue University, owl.purdue.edu)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "oxymoron" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "paradox" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "onomatopoeia" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "foreshadowing" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "flashback" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "understatement" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "rhetorical question" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "pun" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "analogy" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "metaphor" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "simile" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "personification" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "hyperbole" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "dramatic irony" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "satire" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "allusion" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "allegory" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "synecdoche" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "litotes" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "symbol" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "alliteration" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "euphemism" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "denouement" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "deus ex machina" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "stream of consciousness" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "caesura" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "enjambment" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "euphony" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "soliloquy" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "foil" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "sonnet" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "stanza" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "couplet" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "setting" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Cambridge Dictionary: "motif" (Cambridge University Press and Assessment (Cambridge Dictionary), dictionary.cambridge.org)
  • Primary source Types of Characters (Purdue OWL) (Purdue Online Writing Lab, Purdue University, owl.purdue.edu)
  • Primary source Fiction Writing Basics 2 (Purdue OWL) (Purdue Online Writing Lab, Purdue University, owl.purdue.edu)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Metaphor (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Euphemism (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Allusion (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Allegory (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Synecdoche (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Litotes (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Pun (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wiktionary: analogy (Wikimedia Foundation (Wiktionary), en.wiktionary.org)
  • Second source Wiktionary: rhetorical question (Wikimedia Foundation (Wiktionary), en.wiktionary.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Simile (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Alliteration (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Symbol (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Satire (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Flashback (narrative) (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Foreshadowing (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wiktionary: stream of consciousness (Wikimedia Foundation (Wiktionary), en.wiktionary.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Foil (literature) (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Personification (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Diction (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Tone (literature) (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Narrative mode (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wiktionary: antihero (Wikimedia Foundation (Wiktionary), en.wiktionary.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Protagonist (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Antagonist (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Setting (narrative) (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Hyperbole (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Dénouement (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Third-person narrative (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Round character (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Flat character (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Conflict (narrative) (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Enjambment (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Caesura (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Soliloquy (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Oxymoron (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Sonnet (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Stanza (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Couplet (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wiktionary: motif (Wikimedia Foundation (Wiktionary), en.wiktionary.org)
  • Second source Wiktionary: epithet (Wikimedia Foundation (Wiktionary), en.wiktionary.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Free verse (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Deus ex machina (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Wiktionary: euphony (Wikimedia Foundation (Wiktionary), en.wiktionary.org)
  • Second source Wiktionary: paradox (Wikimedia Foundation (Wiktionary), en.wiktionary.org)
  • Second source Wiktionary: onomatopoeia (Wikimedia Foundation (Wiktionary), en.wiktionary.org)
  • Second source Wiktionary: understatement (Wikimedia Foundation (Wiktionary), en.wiktionary.org)
  • Second source Wikipedia: Dramatic irony (Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), en.wikipedia.org)

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