Literary Devices #1
A comparison of two dissimilar things using like or as
Simile
A comparison of two dissimilar things
Metaphor
A speaker or writer’s choice of words.
Diction
A speaker directly addresses an object, absent person, or abstraction as if it were there.
Apostrophe
A statement that seems to be self-contradictory but actually makes sense when understood in the right context.
Paradox
Similarity in the structure of two or more phrases, clauses, or sentences
Poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit.
Juxtaposition
A metaphor that is developed beyond a single sentence or comparison.
Extended Metaphor
A complex type of extended metaphor which forms a story with two or more levels of meaning.
Allegory
The repetition of words or phrases at the beginnings of lines of poetry, grammatical units (phrases, clauses, sentences).
Anaphora
Repetition
Irony
An expression in which a related thing stands for the thing itself.
Metonymy
A person, place, thing, or idea that means something in addition to itself.
Symbol
Litotes
Ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length.
Syntactic Fluency
A metaphor that is conveyed indirectly.
Implied Metaphor
Use a part of something to stand for the whole.
Synecdoche
Gives human characteristics to something that is not human.
Personification
The repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds.
Alliteration
Purposeful and artful deviation from literal language or speech
Figurative Language
A reference with a work to something else, usually history or another artistic work.
Allusion
Exaggerated figure of speech
Hyperbole
The use of words that sound like what they mean.
Onomatopoeia
What literary device is illustrated in this poem title: "The Soul's Dark Cottage?"
Metaphor