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Literary Elements
Parts of fiction
texts
Simile
Metaphor
Extended
Metaphor
Figurative Language
uses the words like or as to
compare one object or idea with
another to suggest they are alike.
-She took in her breath as if it were a
prayer.
-The thought crept into his mind like a
snake into a the bed of a sleeping child
a direct comparison between two
unlike things, not using like or as. (A
simile would say you are like
something; a metaphor is more sure
- it says you are something.)
He is the foundation I stand on.
The picture was a morphine dose for my
heart.
The child is born, a flower for the world.
cause baby, youre a firework
In an extended metaphor, the
metaphor is carried over many
sentences or lines.
The Rose that Grew from Concrete
By Tupac Shakur
Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's
dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from
concrete
Hyperbole
Personificati
on
Alliteration
(Assonance
and
Consonance
)
Onomatopo
eia
Clich
Opposites attract.
You are what you eat.
Idiom
Pun