Literary Device 7th grade

an expression that has a different meaning to a language or region: it cannot be understood from the meaning of its separate words

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Foreshadow

• Flashback

a regional variety of a language spoken in a particular geographical area or by a particular group of people

• Alliteration

• Dialect

• Flashback

• Foreshadow

exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Alliteratioun

• Flashback

use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story to build expectations and create suspense

• Alliteration

• Foreshadow

• Flashback

• Dialect

a scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events to relate events that occurred in the past

• Alliteration

• Foreshadow

• Flashback

• Dialect

repetition of initial consonant sounds used to draw attention to certain words or ideas and to create musical effect

• Alliteration

• Foreshadow

• Flashback

• Dialect

use of a word or phrase more than once

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Repetition

• Irony

when the opposite of what is expected actually happens

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Irony

• Metaphor

figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else

• Irony

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Personification

nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

• Idiom

• Irony

• Personification

• Metaphor