Literary Devices (Definitions) Part 1
This literary device is when there is a brief and/or indirect reference to a person, place, event, idea, or object of significance to culture, history or literature.
Allusion
This literary device is when an idea or animal is given human qualities.
Personification
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans... we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be," is an example of this poetic device.
Repetition
"Ka-pow! Bang! Boom!" are examples of this poetic device.
Onomatopoeia
Author of the poem "Annabel Lee" and the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart".
Edgar Allan Poe
This literary device is when there is the use of something to signify ideas and qualities different from what the literal symbol is.
Symbolism
This literary device is when any line that invokes any of the 5 senses to help build a better mental picture.
Imagery
"Life is a highway," is an example of this poetic device.
Metaphor
"I ran like the wind," is an example of this poetic device.
Simile
Author of "Let America Be America Again"
Robert Frost
This literary device is when there are exaggerations. Usually used for emphasis.
Hyperbole
This literary device is when an idea so overused it has lost its power or effect on people.
Cliche
"My dry tongue felt like sandpaper. Any step outside the shade was like pressing flesh to a hot stove. Sweat sizzled when it hit the pavement," is an example of this poetic device.
Imagery.
"So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day," is an example of this poetic device. (Focus on the word "Eden".)
Allusion
Author of the poem "The Rose That Grew From Concrete."
Tupac Shakur
This literary device is when we focus on the literal or primary meaning of a word.
Denotation
This literary device is when there is secondary possible meaning associated with a word.
Connotation
"Did Mike like the new bike?" is an example of this poetic device.
Assonance
"Jeez, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed," is an example of this poetic device.
Cliche
Author of the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay," which we read in The Outsiders, and the poem "The Road Not Taken."
Robert Frost
This literary device is when consonants (the letters that aren't vowels) are repeated in two or more words in a sentence that are next, or close, to each other.
Alliteration
This literary device is when there is a repetition of vowel sounds. Often makes a rhyme and can be found in the middle of words.
Assonance
"Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain..." is an example of this poetic device.
Alliteration
This term is a vocabulary word that refers collectively to the literary devices we have been using such as hyperbole, metaphors, personification, etc.
Figurative Language
Author of the poem "The War Works Hard"? (Pronounce their name as best you can).
Dunya Mikhail