Literary Device Review

The use of specific language which an author uses to convey meaning. They can most often be found in a single word, phrase, or particular group of words or phrases, at one single point in the text.

• hyberbole

• literary devices

• oxymoron

• imagery

The use of specific objects or images to represent abstract ideas. A symbol must be something tangible or visible, while the idea it symbolizes must be something abstract universal.

• symbolism

• simile

• situational irony

• imagery

The repetition of consonant sounds within close proximity, usually in consecutive words within the same sentence or line

• irony

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

An extreme exaggeration

• repetition

• personification

• hyperbole

• foreshadowing

Where words actually sound like they are spelled

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• imagery

A contradiction

• symbolism

• oxymoron

• imagery

• irony

Giving inanimate objects human-like qualities

• foreshadowing

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Where a specific word, phrase, or structure is repeated several times, to emphasize a particular idea

• imagery

• personification

• repetition

• irony

Where the future events in a story, or perhaps the outcome, are hinted by the author before they happen.

• alliteration

• symbolism

• foreshadowing

• hyperbole

Descriptive details that appeal to a reader’s five senses

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• simile