Reader Fishing! Devices specifically used to hook the reader's attention.
Holy action noises, Batman! Bang, Pow, Pop, Snort, etc. are all examples of this long and difficult-to-spell literary device.
Onomotopoeia?
To make a startling comparison between one thing and another using either the words "like" or "as," as in "Time is like a train not waiting for a passenger."
Simile
The author really, really, really wants you to notice this, so he/she says it again and again.
Repetition.
Literary Technique where either a writer says something they don't mean or they have a character do it. "Sure, I'm totally into that super dangerous and stupid idea."
Verbal Irony
When an author evokes sight, sound, touch, taste, and/or smell in the reader by describing aspects of the setting with particular details.
Imagery
Droppin' bars, like they're from Mars, these dope words are ours, gonna make us stars. This is a cringe use of this literary device.
Rhyme
If I refer to or quote from Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address," MLK's "I Have a Dream," and The Bible to write about justice and fairness, I am using...
Allusion
A concrete noun which represents, or signals, an author's ideas about an abstract, intangible noun. For example, a skull signaling death, a butterfly representing growth or change, a clock standing in for time running out.
Symbolism
When a character calls someone a "stinking, farting, pugfaced, moronic drool baby," they are using...
Epithet
Getting the reader to understand something by saying it is something else to compare it. Examples: John is morally unshakable, a rock; Tina is a queen, looking down upon all of us below; Jerry is a storm, never leaving a room in order.
Metaphor
Foreshadowing
When a writer creates a situation or scenario that seems to contradict itself, but doesn't really. How can all this be true at the same time?
Paradox
Also a math term, when an author uses similar sentence structure to convey different ideas, usually involving one of the FANBOYS and often in a list. Examples: I am a man, I am a fighter, I am a soldier, I am a father.
Parallelism
A literary device where the author creates fear, dread, or suspense by showing things to the reader the characters do not know, or allowing the reader to know things the characters don't.
Dramatic Irony
Writing objects as though they can think, feel, or act. Presenting non human things with human motives and/or abilities.
Personification
This is the most, best, awesomest literary device, one tha Trump uses ALL THE TIME, always. It's when an author states something is the biggest, most, always. Simply the -est.
Hyperbole
Often, you find this unique device to an unusual amount in tongue twisters, like "she sells sea shells by the sea shore" and "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
Alliteration
This literary device is what Santa makes and checks twice every year.
Enumeratio
Literary Device where you negate a negative for both irony and possibly humor. I am not unhappy. I am not unmindful. I am not without hope.
Litotes
An extended metaphor where someone extends how exactly one thing compares to anotehr in more than one way. For instance: People are ships passing in the night. The wind blows us to our fate, our crews remain asleep and do not speak, and the wary man on watch examines the banners of another to see if friend or foe.
Conceit
Jumbo shrimp, Hell's Angels, giant baby, pretty ugly, bright smoke, beautiful mess, incredibly ordinary...
Oxymoron
An author sets up a scenario where things do not go as expected for the characters. Surprising events lead to a surprising ending.
Situational Irony
I wanna go home, my life is at home, my wife is at home, all I want is home. Repeating the same word or phrase at the end of successive words or phrases.
A question asked to cause the listener or reader to consider something more carefully or to stir up an emotional response, not because the author doesn't know the answer.
Rhetorical Question
PROVIDE AN EXAMPLE OF IMAGERY. USE AT LEAST 2 of the 5 PHYSICAL SENSES.
Answers will vary.