Literary Devices #1
A comparison of two dissimilar things using like or as
Simile
She sells seashells by the sea shore
Alliteration
The repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds.
Alliteration
Gives human characteristics to something that is not human.
Personification
A comparison of two dissimilar things
Metaphor
Similarity in the structure of two or more phrases, clauses, or sentences
"Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb" (NOT simile)
Foreshadowing
Exaggerated for effect
Hyperbole
A reference with a work to something else, usually history or another artistic work.
Allusion
Word choice
Diction
Repetition
Jumbo Shrimp
Oxymoron
The use of words that sound like what they mean.
Onomatopoeia
A person, place, thing, or idea that means something in addition to itself.
Symbol
Contradictory terms are used in conjunction
Oxymoron
Sentence Structure
Syntax
I can resist everything except temptation
Paradox
The use of language to convey other than what is stated of a contradiction in what is EXPECTED to happen and what ACTUALLY happens.
Irony
A play on a word’s multiple meanings
Pun
A statement that seems to be self-contradictory but actually makes sense when understood in the right context.
Paradox
Purposeful and artful deviation from literal language or speech
Figurative Language
"Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes/With nimble soles. I have a soul of lead/So stakes me to the ground I cannot move"
Pun
A universal idea or truth that the literary work supports
Theme
A complex type of extended metaphor which forms a story with two or more levels of meaning.
Allegory
A speaker directly addresses an object, absent person, or abstraction as if it were there.
Apostrophe