Literary Devices

A reference to someone in history, literature, or the Bible that creates a mental picture

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

• paradox

Appears to be self-contradictory but is actually true

• paradox

• oxymoron

When two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect, this is called:

• metaphor

• paradox

• enjambment

• oxymoron

Situation's atmosphere and character's feelings

• mood

• tone

Author's attitude toward the subject

• mood

• tone

Extreme exaggeration for effect

• synecdoche

• enjambment

• allusion

• hyperbole

Giving human like qualities to inanimate objects

• allusion

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

The repetition of a beginning sound

• alliteration

• mood

• free verse

• metaphor

The sound a thing makes

• oxymoron

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

The rhyming of the end word with a word in the middle of a line

• rhyming couplet

• free verse

• paradox

• internal rhyme