Review: Literary Devices

when an author makes an extreme exaggeration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Allusion

the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot.

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Visually descriptive or figurative language that activates the reader's senses

• Imagery

• Simile

• Flashback

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Alliteration

A comparison without using like or as

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words.

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A word that imitates the sound it represents.

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A comparison using "like" or "as"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

• Personification

• Characterization

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When a question asked without expecting an answer

• Hyperbole

• Rhetorical question

• Theme