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Literary Terms

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Seriously, 93 slides of literary terms? Yes, and well worth the time, although perhaps not all at once. The beauty here is in the concise, easy-to-understand definitions for such well-known terms as imagery and personification, as well as for more esoteric terms such as enjambment and litotes. The color-coded examples are an added bonus. 

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refrains, metaphors, figurative language, literary devices, similes, idioms, figures of speech, oxymoron, alliteration, allusions, consonance, hyperbole, imagery, onomatopoeia, personification, couplets, poetry, apostrophes, punctuation, analogies, connotation, paradoxes, assonance

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alliteration, allusion, analogy, apostrophe, assonance, connotation, consonance, diction, euphemism, hyperbole, idiom, imagery, metaphor, onomatopoeia, paradox, personification, rhythm, simile, accent, anaphora, caesura, couplet, enjambment, inversion, oxymoron, refrain, repetition, symbol, synecdoche, understatement, figurative language, metonomy, litotes, conceit, english language arts
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11th - Higher Ed
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English Language Arts
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