Blue
When words are used to suggest the opposite of the literal meaning.
Verbal Irony
The high point of interest or suspense in a literary work.
Climax
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
Foreshadowing
Occurs when the audience expects something to happen, but then something else happens instead.
Situational Irony
An exaggeration.
Hyperbole
A form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics.
Personification
An author’s attitude toward his or her subject and audience.
Tone
The author’s use of developing a character through speech, thoughts, emotions, and actions.
Characterization
The author’s use of developing a character by providing physical and personality traits of an individual in the story.
Characterization
When the audience knows something the characters do not.
Dramatic Irony
The writer or speaker refers either directly or indirectly to a person, event, or thing in history or to a work of art or literature.
Allusion
Anything that appears on the surface to be one thing, yet represents something else and carries a hidden, deeper meaning.
Symbol or Symbolism
the repetition or variations of an image or idea in a work used to develop theme or characters
Motif
the moment when all the problems are resolved one way or another and the story is closed
Resolution
"A cool breeze carried carnival music and the aroma of popcorn my way. Just over the rise the lights blinked in a million colors." This appeal to the senses and the mental picture are this literary device.
Imagery
When the first letters of words are the same as in: She shook the shears at the sheep.
Alliteration
A character who contrasts with another character - usually the protagonist— to highlight particular qualities of the other character.
Foil
A figure of speech wherein the author groups contradictory terms to suggest a paradox
Example: “cruel kindness”
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using "like" or "as."
Simile
A figure of speech that compares two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics.
Metaphor
Words that imitate sounds.
Onomatopoeia
Two types of literary devices are used in this sentence. The wind whispered through the trees.
Personification and Alliteration
When a poem changes direction in tone or message, it is called this.
Shift
An overused, worn-out word or phrase.
Cliche
The following are examples of this type of literary device because of the way their characters contrast one another.
*Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom
*Anna and Elsa
*Woody and Buzz Lightyear
*Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Foil