Literary Devices A-G
A timeworn expression which has lost its original meaning.
Cliche
Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper...
alliteration
A simile makes a comparison using what two words?
like or as
The use of an object to represent another.
Symbolism
A shift in the story to events that took place earlier, needed to fill in background details.
flashback
Oh, Canada, our home and native land.
apostrophe
‘Apple of my eye’ or ‘Chew the fat’ or ‘Cool as a cucumber’ or ‘Like two peas in a pod’.
idiom
Deliberate overstatement or exaggeration to achieve emphasis.
Hyperbole
The way a text makes the reader feel versus the way the setting makes a reader feel.
mood vs atmosphere
The funeral director comforted the mourner by saying, “He went to a better place”.
Euphemism
Direct comparison between two unlike objects.
Metaphor
A word whose sound suggests its meaning.
Onomatopoeia
An extended narrative that carried a second meaning along with the surface story.
Allegory
"you wanna pizza me?" (imagine a picture of an angry slice of pizza talking)
Pun
Define personification.
Inanimate or non-human thing given human characteristics.
Contrast of characters or events in which positioning is important.
Juxtaposition
These two words sound similar but mean two different things; the literal meaning and the emotional associations.
denotation & connotation
Presenting to the emergency room with a rapidly deteriorating mental status and acute hypernatremia.
Jargon
If you were in Antarctica and it was -45 and you said, “Oh, it's rather chilly outside today.”.
Understatement
Phrases with inherent contradiction.
Oxymoron