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More Literary Devices

More Literary Devices. Alliteration. Words that are grouped together that start with the same sound, vowel or consonant. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Assonance. Words that are grouped together with the same vowel sound repeated. The sound can be anywhere in the words.

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More Literary Devices

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  1. More Literary Devices

  2. Alliteration • Words that are grouped together that start with the same sound, vowel or consonant. • Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

  3. Assonance • Words that are grouped together with the same vowel sound repeated. The sound can be anywhere in the words. • She sells sea shells by the seashore.

  4. Consonance • Words that are grouped together with the same consonant sound repeated. The sound can be anywhere in the words. • She sells sea shells by the seashore.

  5. Couplet • Two lines that follow each other that rhyme. The which, if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

  6. Oxymoron • Two words which are in contradiction of each other. • Jumbo Shrimp • Just War • Books on Tape

  7. Pun • The use of words that are alike in sound but different in meaning. • The electrician got his supplies at the outlet store. • I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger, then it hit me. • I am reading a book about anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down.

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