Literary Devices

A technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading them.

• Literary Devices

• Rhetorical Devices

• Rhetorical Questions

• Onomatopoeia

Describes a series of words in quick succession that all start with the same letter or sound. It lends a pleasing cadence to prose and poetry both.

• alliteration

• metonymy

• allusion

• irony

A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.

• Personification

• Tone

• Analogy

• Parallelism

Refers to the overall mood and message of your book

• Repetition

• Tone

• Synecdoche

• Euphemism

It is a common rhetorical device used to add emphasis and stress in writing and speech.

• Oxymoron

• Repetition

• Onompatopoeia

• Simile

Often becoming adages or proverbs as people repeat them over and over.

• Aphorism

• Euphemism

• Anthropomorphism

• Parallelism

The signature literary device of the double negative.

• Litotes

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Irony

An exaggerated statement that emphasizes the significance of the statement’s actual meaning

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

Appeals to readers’ senses through highly descriptive language.

• Imagery

• Allusion

• Aphorism

• Dramatic Irony

A writer uses to produce a special effect in his writing and to help readers understand his writing on a deeper level.

• Rhetorical Devices

• Literary Devices

• Rhetorical Questions

• Poetic Devices