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Prompt: This literary device directly equates two unlike things, as in calling time a thief, without using like or as.
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- 01This literary device directly equates two unlike things, as in calling time a thief, without using like or as.
- 02This literary device occurs when the audience knows more than a character, building tension from that gap.
- 03This long narrative verse form recounts heroic deeds, as in Homer's Odyssey.
- 04This literary device presents a character's continuous thought flow, as in passages of Joyce's Ulysses.
- 05This literary device compares two things explicitly using like or as, as in describing someone as brave as a lion.