Review: Literary Devices

extreme exaggeration

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Allusiom

the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot.

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Foreshadowing

Central idea of a work of literature

• Simile

• Theme

• Metaphor

Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

• Imagery

• Oxymoron

• Flashback

a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story.

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Alliteration

A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.

• Imagery

• Personification

• Characterization

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

• Illusion

• Allusion

• Ollusion

the perspective from which a story is told

• Personification

• Point of View

• Characterization

A comparison without using like or as

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Theme

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words.

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration