Literary Devices in Narrative Literature

The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Onomatopeia

An object or animal spoken of as if it has human feelings, thoughts or attitude

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Personification

• Simile

Overstating something, usually for the purpose of creating a comic effect

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

An expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different

from the literal meaning of the words

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Personification

A comparison between two unlike things using words such as like, as, resembles or than

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

• Personification

An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is

said to be another thing

• Analogy

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

The use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning

• Figure of Speech

• Analogy

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

A reference to a statement, a person, place, or an event from literature, the arts,

history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture

• Analogy

• Allusion

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

the moral of a story or work

• Theme

• Tone

• symbolism

• Irony

The attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and audience

• Diction

• Verbal Irony

• Tone

• Symbol