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Examples of Simile in Literature Writers use simile to add color and feeling to their writing and to allow readers to see something in a new way through the comparison that the simile creates.

Why Do Writers Use Personification? Writers use personification to create memorable images with language, allowing readers to experience works of literature more vividly. Depending on the text, …

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Juxtaposition in Literature Juxtaposition is a basic tool of storytelling, as writers choose how to place their characters, settings, arguments, and images in relation to one another to achieve their aims.

Allegory in Literature Allegory is one of the oldest literary forms, with writers long relying on allegory's ability to convey a moral or political message efficiently and discreetly.

"Those Winter Sundays" is a poem by Robert Hayden written in 1962. In the poem, an adult speaker reflects on how, when he was a child, his father would get up early on Sunday mornings throughout …

Dramatic irony is a plot device often used in theater, literature, film, and television to highlight the difference between a character's understanding of a given situation, and that of the audience.