Literary Devices - Set 1

a reference to a well-known person, event, place, literary work, or work of art

the repetition of initial consonant sounds

a central message about life that is illustrated in a literary work

the feeling created in the reader by literary work or passage

the writer's attitude toward their audience and/or subject

a struggle between opposing forces

the use of anything that stands for represents something on a deeper level

a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

a type of figurative language that uses exaggeration to add emphasis

a type of figurative language in which something is described as though it were something else