Literary Devices

is a type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using words like and as

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom

makes references to other pieces of literature, art, songs, historical events, stories, or pop culture

• personification

• imagery

• allusion

• allegory

a type of figurative language that compares two unlike things by saying something is something else. It does not use like or as.

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

uses the same sound at the beginning of words that are next to each other in a sentence

• allegory

• alliteration

• rhyme

• rhythm

a type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to inanimate objects

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• symbol

uses an image, character, object to represent something more than or beyond itself.

• setting

• idiom

• symbol

• theme

a phrase or group of words that is commonly used but does not have a literal meaning,

• idiom

• irony

• myth

• allusion

uses words that appeal to the 5 senses

• irony

• imagery

• oxymoron

• allegory

device that spells out the way a sound would be spelled or appear in writing

• personification

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• rhythm

is an over exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally

• homonym

• dialect

• diction

• hyperbole