Literary Devices Review

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art to enrich the reading experience by adding meaning.

• Anagram

• Allusion

• Allegory

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

The associations people make with words that go beyond the literal or dictionary definition. Many words have connotations that create emotions or feelings in the reader.

• Dialect

• Consonance

• Connotation

• Denotation

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Comparison of two things essentially different but with some commonalities; does not use “like” or “as”

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Comparison

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

A figure of speech in which two seemingly opposing and contradictory elements are juxtaposed (side-by-side).

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Human qualities attributed to an animal, object, or idea 

• Irony

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

A technique that involves surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions or contrasts.

• Irony

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Which of the following is NOT a type of irony?

• Situaitonal

• Verbal

• experimental

• Dramatic

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Writing that comments humorously on human flaws, ideas, social customs, or institutions in order to change them.

• allusion

• satire

• humor

• irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Techniques a writer uses to create and develop a character by what:

he/she does or says,

other characters say about him/her, or how they react to him/her,

the author reveals directly or through a narrator.

• consonance

• parallel structure

• repetition

• characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

An expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning of the words (figure of speech)

• juxtaposition

• idiom

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3