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

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

• Lyrics

• Verse

• Diction

• Dialect

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

• preview

• clue

• presupposition

• foreshadowing

An extreme exaggeration of a real event or situation

• Hyperbole

• Overreaction

• Extremity

• Hyperaction

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

• Prose

• Imagery

• Poetry

• Sensory

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

• Shocking Irony

• Unusual Irony

• Situational Irony

• Confounding Irony

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

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Simile

• Mirroring

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

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

• Tone

• Takeaway

• Perspective

• Mood

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

• Paradox

• Revelation

• Conflict

• Breakthrough