Literary Devices Review

A story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities

• Allegory
• Anecdote
• Satire
• Tone

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together

• Vernacular
• Alliteration
• Imagery
• Coneit

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture

• Chiasmus
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row

• Foil
• Hyperbole
• Anaphora
• Satire

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The language spoken by the people who live in a particular locality

• Vernacular
• Tone
• Epithet
• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization

• Tone
• Foil
• Personification
• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

The insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work

• Theme
• Conceit
• Anaphora
• Satire

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole

• Satire
• Synecdoche
• Metonymy
• Foil

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change

• Symbolism
• Hyperbole
• Satire
• Comedy

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual 

• Tall tale
• Comedy
• Anecdote
• Foil

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3