Literary Devices

• a contrast between what happens and what is expected

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• allusion

• dramatic irony

a contrast between what is said and what is meant

• synecdoche

• situational irony

• verbal irony

• hyperbole

•  a contrast between what a character thinks to be true and what the reader knows to be true

• verbal irony

• allusion

• character irony

• dramatic irony

occurs when the author interrupts a story to recreate the events that occurred at an earlier time

• flashback

• dramatic irony

• literary whiplash

• synecdoche

a part is used to represent the whole, or the whole for a part

• anaphora

• allusion

• synecdoche

• foreshadowing

occurs when the author provides clues as to what will happen later

• dramatic irony

• foreshadowing

• assonance

• flashback

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

• alliteration

• synecdoche

• assonance

• anaphora

a literary reference to a historical person, place, or event

• allusion

• personification

• verbal irony

• situational irony