Sound Devices
The repetition of the initial sound in a series of words.
Alliteration
This is when you compare two dissimilar things using 'like' or 'as'.
Simile
A play on words using similar sounding words with different meanings for a humourous effect.
Pun
This is when the audience knows what is happening in the play while the characters do not.
Dramatic Irony
This is the use of informal language or slang. You do not use this in formal writing.
Colloquialism
This is when the sound of the word mimics the sound it is describing.
Onomatopoeia
The placement of two differing images or ideas in close proximity in a piece of writing or media.
Juxtaposition
The use of irony in speech.
Verbal Irony
Shakespeare referred to Greek mythology and mythological characters often in his plays as they would have been well known for his Elizabethan audience. This is what literary device?
Allusion
These are well known phrases or sayings that are not realistic in nature, yet are accepted as turns of phrase. For example, "It's raining cats and dogs".
Idiom
The repetition of consonant sounds in a series of words; can be anywhere in the word.
The development of a metaphor throughout a piece of writing or media piece; can be developed in a paragraph or scene or throughout the entire piece.
Conceit
This is when there is a break in the serious events of a piece with a comedic scene.
Comic Relief
The use of a physical thing, image or idea in order to represent another.
Symbolism
This is a short or amusing story about a real person or event.
Anecdote
This is the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words.
Assonance
This is when you can read a story on two different levels; a literal level and a symbolic level. Often the symbolic reading includes a moral, lesson, or social commentary.
Allegory
This is when humour, irony, or ridicule is used to expose human vices or stupidity, especially in response to politics or other topical issues.
Satire
This is when the natural world reflects what is happening in the human world.
Pathetic Fallacy
This is used to make unpleasant events or realities easier for humans to bear. For example, "They have passed on".
Euphemism
This device is used in speech or dialogue when the character speaks to an inanimate object or part of the natural world, like it will respond.
Apostrophe
The use of one thing or idea to help explain a similar concept or idea. To use the benefits of practise in a sport to help explain the need to do school homework.
Analogy
This is when characteristics of the original are exaggerated in order to poke fun at that original.
Parody
Paradox
This is the use of a combination of words that sound harsh or discordant.
Cacophony