Literary Devices Review #1

When words that appear in a sentence or a line of poetry begin with the same sound or letter

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Consistency

• Algorithm

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

The specific choice of words used to help determine the style in which the person is speaking or writing

• Lyrics

• Verse

• Diction

• Dialect

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A hint at what will happen next, or at some point, in the story

• preview

• clue

• presupposition

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

An extreme exaggeration of a real event or situation

• Hyperbole

• Overreaction

• Extremity

• Hyperaction

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

Writing that appeals to the reader's physical senses (sight, taste, smell, touch, hearing)

• Prose

• Imagery

• Poetry

• Sensory

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

When what happens in a story is vastly different from what the reader expected to happen

• Shocking Irony

• Unusual Irony

• Situational Irony

• Confounding Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

A comparison of two like things, as if one is a stand-in or a representation of, the other

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Simile

• Mirroring

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

When recurrent elements, structures, contrasts, or other literary devices are found throughout the story to help develop a text's major themes

• Repetition

• Monotony

• Motif

• Pattern

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

The feeling that a literary work conveys to the readers (the feeling YOU get when you read something)

• Tone

• Takeaway

• Perspective

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A sentence or phrase that appears contradictory, but implies something well-founded or true

• Paradox

• Revelation

• Conflict

• Breakthrough