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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.

Literary devices and terms are the techniques and elements—from figures of speech to narrative devices to poetic meters—that writers use to create narrative literature, poetry, speeches, or any …

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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.

Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.