Literary Devices 1
Sound words
Onomatopoeia
The musical quality of a poem.
Rhythm
The message about life that the poem conveys.
Theme
When an action or event is the opposite of its literal meaning or expected outcome.
Irony
A conversation between two or more people, or between characters in a story, play, or movie.
Dialogue
A rhythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repeated.
Meter
Giving things that are not human, personalities or actions of humans.
Personification
A deliberate exaggeration.
Hyperbole
A break in the chronological order of events, which show the reader past events of a character.
Flashback
A word that has the same or a very similar meaning as another word
Synonym
A comparison of two different things. Doesn't use like or as.
Metaphor
The pattern of rhymes.
Rhyme Scheme
A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
Simile
A warning or indication of a future event.
Foreshadowing
To look at two or more things and see how they are alike.
Compare
Creates a picture in the reader's mind.
Imagery
To repeat sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines in a poem.
Repetition
A division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains.
Stanza
A statement that seems to go against common sense, but may still be true. Sometimes called a contradiction.
Oxymoron
A word that means the opposite of another word.
Antonym
The repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words.
Alliteration
Words that end in the same sound, end rhyme.
Rhyme
The attitude or mood the author creates.
Tone
A figure of speech that pairs two opposing words.
Paradox
Showing how two things are different.
Contrast