12 Literary Devices You Should Know - English with Jennifer
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Index
0:01 Introduction
0:34 Idiom
2:03 Simile and Metaphor
3:30 Analogy
4:10 Hyperbole
4:38 Irony (and sarcasm)
6:20 Pun
7:29 Parallelism
8:36 Personification
9:23 Oxymoron
10:33 Onomatopoeia
11:19 Alliteration
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🎞️Movie and TV Clips Used in this English Lesson
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any rights to the following works. I chose to use short excerpts for educational purposes.
Tootsie (1982) Columbia Pictures 1:49
This Is Us (2016) Season 1, Episode 10 3:27
The Cutting Edge (1992) MGM 3:42
Anne of Green Gables (1995) Season 1, Episode 1, Part 1 4:39
The Wedding Singer (1998) Juno Pix et al. 6:11
Groundhog Day (1993) Columbia Pictures 7:16, 12:08
Ghostbusters (1984) Sony Pictures 8:06
Independence Day (1996) Twentieth Century Fox 8:23
Waiting (2005) Eden Rock Media et al. 9:19
All the President’s Men (1976) Wildwood Enterprises 9:44
Star Trek (1966) Season 3, Episode 2 10:09
Why Him? (2016) Twentieth Century Fox 10:23
Saved by the Bell (1989) Season 1, Episode 2 11:14
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