Literary devices
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19 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 allegory | characters represent abstract ideas or moral qualities |
| alliteration | Repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants. |
| allusion | Reference to a person, place,(historical) or artistic work that everyone should know. |
| flashback | device by which an author interrupts story to reveal events that happened at an earlier time. |
| foreshadowing | the planting of important clues in the story to prepare the reader for future events |
| hyperbole | using obvious exaggeration. |
| imagery | using details and descriptions in order to create a sensory experience for the reader. |
| metaphor | comparison of two unlike things (no "like/as"). |
| mood | The feeling created in the reader by a literary work. |
| onomatopoeia | Using words to describe sounds |
| personification | To give inanimate objects human qualities. |
| rhyme scheme | the patterns in which rhymes are arranged in a poem. |
| simile | comparison of dissimilar things using "like" or "as." |
| tone | the feeling conveyed by the way the author writes about subject. |
| verbal irony | When someone says one thing but means the opposite. (sarcasm) |
| symbol | person or thing that has a DEEPER meaning suggesting value or attitude. |
| theme | central thought or idea of the story |
| Oxymoron | bringing together two contradictory terms that make sense |
| situational irony | contrast between what is expected and what actually happens. |
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