Alliteration - The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words., Adjectives - A word naming an attribute of a noun, such as sweet, red, or technical., Personification - Giving human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form., Triple - Ideas, thoughts, event, characters or sentences tha are presented in threes to be more effective and memorable., Onomatopoeia - When a word describes a sound and actually mimics the sound of the object or action it refers to when it is spoken., Metaphor - Compares something directly to something else, in order to create an image or resemblance, Pathetic Fallacy - A literary device that attributes human qualities and emotions to inanimate objects of nature. For example the weather mirroring a characters emotions., Repetition - Using the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing or speech., Emotive language - Use of descriptive words, often adjectives, that can show the reader how an author or character feels about something, evoke an emotional response from the reader., Foreshadowing - A narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted., Simile - Comparing two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'., Oxymoron - A figure of speech pairing two words together that are opposing or contradictory., Adverbs - Informs about an action – how, where, when, in which manner, or to what an extent it has been performed.,

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