Literary Devices Grade 10

Meaning or identity ascribed to one subject by way or another

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Oxymoron

"You were like a star."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Paradox

• Hyperbole

Words which sounds are similar to the sound they are meant to depict.

• Personification

• Analogy

• Onomatopoeia

• Caesura

The use of ideas that are contradictory to one another, yet, hold significant value on several levels.

• Paradox

• Metonymy

• Metaphor

• Allegory

"Loving hate"

• Irony

• Simile

• Caesura

• Oxymoron

A discreet way of saying something unpleasant without directly using negativity.

• Deus Ex Machina

• Litotes

• Euphemism

• Allusion

Uses words in quick succession. It begins with letters belonging to the same sound group.

• Assonance

• Allegory

• Alliteration

• Allusion

Incidence where implausible concept is brought in to the story to resolve conflict and bring pleasing solution.

• Caesura

• Metonymy

• Apostrophe

• Deus Ex Machina

Gives human traits to non-human or inanimate object.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Irony

Uses extreme words to lay emphasis on a certian quality or feature.

• Paradox

• Anaphora

• Hyperbole

• Apostrophe