Literary Devices - Advanced

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

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

• Alliteration

• Repetition

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

• Irony

• Antithesis

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

A contrast or opposition between two different ideas or phrases

• Antithesis

• Parallelism

• Oxymoron

• Metonymy

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

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

• Metonymy

• Chiasmus

• Irony

• Personification

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

• Juxtaposition

• Allusion

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

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

• Hypophora

• Personification

• Apostrophe

• Metaphor

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

• Antimetabole

• Asyndeton

• Epistrophe

• Meosis

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

• Apostrophe

• Rhetoric

• Hypophora

• Asyndeton

• School was delayed because of a few snowflakes.

• Irony

• Meiosis

• extended metaphor

• hyperbole