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Literary devices flashcards with terms like allegory, irony, hyperbole, and personification for Grade 11 English.
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This 60-card set covers literary and rhetorical devices essential for 11th Grade literature and composition study. It includes terms like allegory, irony (dramatic, situational, and verbal), hyperbole, personification, and syntax, as well as poetic devices such as alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia. Use it for vocabulary review, exam preparation, or as a reference during close-reading and literary analysis assignments.

Subject:
English / Language Arts
Topic:
Literature
Grade Level:
11th Grade
Updated October 2024

Terms in This Set

  • Allegory
  • alliteration
  • allusion
  • ambiguity
  • anaphora
  • anecdote
  • angst
  • antithesis
  • archetype
  • argumentation
  • aside
  • Assonance
  • Asyndeton
  • Balance
  • Bandwagon
  • Catharsis
  • Charachterization
  • Comic Relief
  • Conceit
  • Connotation
  • Consonance
  • Deduction
  • Diction
  • Didactic
  • Dramatic Irony
  • Elegy
  • Elliptical
  • Ennui
  • Epiphany
  • Epithet
  • Euphemism
  • Explication
  • Farce
  • Figurative Language
  • Flat Character
  • Foil
  • Hubris
  • Hyperbole
  • Imagery
  • Induction
  • Litotes
  • Motif
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Parable
  • Paradox
  • Pathos
  • Personification
  • Pun
  • Polysyndeton
  • McGuffin
  • Repetition
  • Rhetoric
  • Satire
  • Situational Irony
  • Soliloquy
  • Style
  • syntax
  • Tragedy
  • Tragic Flaw
  • Verbal Irony

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