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

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

• Vernacular
• Alliteration
• Imagery
• Coneit

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

• Chiasmus
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Allusion

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

• Foil
• Hyperbole
• Anaphora
• Satire

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

• Vernacular
• Tone
• Epithet
• Antithesis

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.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

• Theme
• Conceit
• Anaphora
• Satire

A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole

• Satire
• Synecdoche
• Metonymy
• Foil

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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