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Please define and provide an example for the following literary terms: Allusion : reference (s) to outside literary text(s) . EX: biblical allusion Diction : word choice EX: using the word “battered ” versus “beat -up ” Figure of Speech : EX: hyperbole, metaphor, personification, simile, and understatement Metaphor : a comparison of two things that does not use “like” or “as” EX: My friend Trey is such a pig. Simile : a comparison using “like” or “as” EX: Her makeup was like Kim Kardashian’s. Personification : to give human characteristics to non -living things EX: The willow wept and waved in the wind as I walked away . (^this is also ALLITERATION .) Imagery : where a piece of text is invoking one or more of your 5 SENSES : (hearing, taste, touch, smell, sight) . Alliteration : the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are near one another in a sentence . Assonance : repetition of vowel sounds in words that are next to one another in the sentence . Onomatopoeia : BAM! Words that are sounds. SMACK! Stanza : the “paragraphs” in the poem . For a further guide on literary devices, please see the following website: http:/ /literary -devices.com/