Literary Devices

A Comparison Using like or as

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Similie

• Oxymoron

Compares to things not using like or as

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

An exaggerated way of saying something

• hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Theme

• Irony

The life lesson of a story

• Personification

• Theme

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

When you have to infer to find out what a Character is like

• Theme

• plot

• Indirect Characterization

• irony

When the reader knows something the Character in the story dose not

• Irony

• Situational irony

• Verbal irony

• Dramatic Irony

When a Character says something but means the opposite

• Alliteration

• Verbal Irony

• Theme

• Direct Characterization

When an inanimate object is given human characteristics

• Similie

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Rising Action

When two contradicting words are combined

• Alliteration

• oxymoron

• Personification

• Hyperbole

When something happens that is the opposite of what we expect

• Situational Irony

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Verbal Irony