Literary Devices

Question 1

Analogy is comparing one thing to

Answer 1

Another very different things in order to explain it better

Question 2

Aphorism is a brief statement expressing

Answer 2

Some truth as shown in a story

Moral, proverb, maxim

Question 3

Irony is contrast between

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Expected outcome and the actual way things turn out

Question 4

Paradox is a statement that reveals a kind of

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Truth although at firs it seems to be self contradictory and untrue

Question 5

Pun is a humorous use of a word or phrase that has

Answer 5

More than one meaning

Question 6

Theme is the meaning of a story and what it reveals about

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Human nature

While plot is what happens theme is what it means

Question 7

Allusion: a reference in one story to s

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Well known character or event from another story history or place