Literary Devices

Giving human traits to a non-human thing

• setting

• metaphor

• personification

• genre

A comparison WITHOUT the use of like or as

• similie

• conflict

• metaphor

• genre

The time and place where a story takes place

• setting

• irony

• hyperbole

• theme

The struggle between opposing forces or problem the character faces

• climax

• theme

• simile

• conflict

Types of literary work

• metaphor

• antagonist

• genre

• symbol

The character in opposition to the main character. Against the hero

• protagonist

• allusion

• antagonist

• flashback

Talk or conversation among characters

• dialogue

• dialect

• characterization

• alliteration

A person, place or thing which has meaning in itself but represents or stands for something else

• irony

• symbol

• theme

• flashback

The expectation of one event and then another completely different event happens

• allusion

• alliteration

• climax

• irony

A reference to a person, place, thing or event outside the work which the author expects the reader or the audience to recognize

• foreshadow

• hyperbole

• allusion

• hyperbole