Sound Devices
"Bang!", "Crash!", "Boom!"
Onomatopoea
A reference to a person, place, or other text within a story
Allusion
An implied comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as".
Metaphor
Appealling to emotions
Pathos
A narrative device that interrupts the chronological order of a story to show events that happened in the past.
Flashback
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary"
Alliteration
The character or forces that work AGAINST a main character or protagonist
Antagonist
An explicit comparison using words such as "like" or "as."
Simile
Logical appeal
Logos
The attitude of a speaker toward their subject
Tone
"He struck a streak of luck."
Consonance
Short, amusing story about a true event
Anectdote
Giving human traits, emotions, or behaviors to non-human things
Personification
Using credibility to appeal to the audience
Ethos
the use of symbols, such as objects, colors, or actions, to represent abstract ideas or qualities.
Symbolism
"The cat sat on the mat."
Assonance
When the speaker speaks to a dead person, person that is not present, or an inanimate object
Apostrophe
Deliberate and extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or comedic effect.
Hyperbole
Placing two contrasting ideas, images, or characters close together to highlight their differences.
Juxtaposition
a noticeable, often sudden change in a text's tone, mood, setting, or narrative perspective
Shift
When the final words of both lines share the same sound.
Rhyming Couplet
Repetition of word or words at the beginning of a phrase
Anaphora
A figure of speech pairing two contradictory or opposing terms side by side
Oxymoron
A question asked to make a point or create a dramatic effect rather than to get an actual answer.
Rhetorical Question
a narrative or visual artwork in which characters, events, and settings symbolically represent abstract concepts, moral lessons, or political events