Literary Devices 1-23

Of, related to. or concerned with the art of speaking or writing formally and effectively, especially as a way to persuade or influence people.

• Rhetorical Question

• Antagonist

• Verbal Irony

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

CCSS.W.9-10.1

A reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history, or another work of literature.

• Parallelism

• Sonnet

• Allusion

• Mood

A 14 line poem

• Mood

• Sonnet

• Analogy

• Paradox

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A character or force in conflict with the main character

• Personification

• Protagonist

• Metaphor

• Antagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words

• Onomatopoeia

• Katcho

• Alliteration

• Bang

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

The emotion the author wishes to evoke in the reader

(setting, tone, and events can affect the mood)

• Mood

• Simile

• Figurative

  Language

• Ambiguity

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The repetition of words, phrases, or clauses that have similar

grammatical structure

• First-person POV

• Paradox

• Parallelism

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

In literature, a comparison between two things that helps explain

or illustrate one or both of them

• Third-person POV

• Situational Irony

• Analogy

• Ambiguity

Told by a narrator who related the action using he, she, them, they,

• Third-Person POV

• Metaphor

• Rhetorical

  Question

• Symbolism

The repetition of the same consonant or beginning several

words with the same vowel sound

• Anaphora

• Symbolism

• Analogy

• Alliteration