9th Literary Devices

Audience knows more about a situation or event than the characters do

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Verbal Ironly

• Transitional Irony

Hint as to what happens next; suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped.

• Irony

• Foreshadowing

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

recurring subject, theme, idea, etc.

• Motif

• Allusion

• Imagery

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

a long speech entirely delivered by a single performer

• Soliloquy

• Blank Verse

• Monologue

• Suspense

When you expect one thing, but the opposite happens

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Transitional Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

a long speech entirely delivered by a single performer who alone on stage expressing his or her thoughts aloud

• Monologue

• Meter

• Soliloquy

• Iambic Pentameter

the uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story

• Tone

• Mood

• Suspense

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

the attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject or a character

• Mood

• Allusion

• Suspense

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Someone says something but means the opposite (think of sarcasm)

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

• Transitional Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole