Literary Devices - Advanced

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

• Alliteration

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A reference to another person, place, thing, event, or text, with which the reader is presumably familiar

• Irony

• Antithesis

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A contrast or opposition between two different ideas or phrases

• Antithesis

• Parallelism

• Oxymoron

• Metonymy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

A rhetorical or literary construction in which words or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or modified form (e.g., "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.")

• Metonymy

• Anaphora

• Juxtaposition

• Chiasmus

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A type of metaphor in which a non-human thing is talked about as though it is a person.

• Metonymy

• Chiasmus

• Irony

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The pairing of two ideas, images, concepts, or styles to create an effect

• Juxtaposition

• Allusion

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"My jacket, that green ugly brother who breathed over my shoulder"

• Hypophora

• Personification

• Apostrophe

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

............the lost land—end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When?

• Antimetabole

• Asyndeton

• Epistrophe

• Meosis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously.....

• Apostrophe

• Rhetoric

• Hypophora

• Asyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

• School was delayed because of a few snowflakes.

• Irony

• Meiosis

• extended metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6