Literary Devices and Elements

A Comparison Using like or as

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Similie

• Oxymoron

The life lesson of a story

• Personification

• Theme

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

An exaggerated way of saying something not intended to be taken literally in order to prove a point

• hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Theme

• Irony

a comparison in which one thing is said to be another

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

When an inanimate object is given human characteristics

• Similie

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Rising Action

When the story goes back to previous events

• Irony

• Time travel

• Theme

• Flashback

When something hints to a later event in the story

• Flashback

• Irony

• Foreshadowing

• Point of view

When I or me is used in the story

• 3rd person point of view

• 2nd person point of view

• 1st person point of view

• Point of view

When the character is speaking to you in the piece of literature

• Conflict

• resoloution

• 2nd person point of view

When an outside narrator is telling the story

• 3rd Person Point of view

• Alliteration

• Point Of View

• Simlie