Literary Devices

An interesting first sentence or paragraph in a novel that entices the reader into the story

• Hook

• Allusion

• Simile

• Personification

Refers to the person telling the story

• Rule of Three

• Personification

• Point of View

• Alliteration

The use of a word that imitates the sound of the object which it refers to

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion

• Analogy

• Comic Relief

Refers to the time and place in which the events occur in the novel

• Dramatic Irony

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Setting

A humorous scene placed between serious scenes

• Rule of Three

• Dramatic Irony

• Comic Relief

• Cliff Hanger

An extravagant exaggeration used as a figure of speech

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Conflict

• Foreshadowing

The feeling an author creates through carefully chosen words, phrases, settings, and events

• Conflict

• Symbolism

• Dialect

• Mood

The language used by people of a specific area, class, or group

• Allusion

• Dialect

• Alliteration

• Point of View

Refers to the clues an author gives to suggest what may happen later in the novel

• Allusion

• Symbolism

• Foreshadowing

• Personification

Repeating the same consonant sound at the beginning of two or more words in close succession

• Analogy

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Metaphor