Literary Devices

What is foreshadow?

• a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

• Before the character is seen you see their shadow

• too scary to mention

What is Allusion?

• A dark shadow cast by the moon

• My grandma makes excellent muffins

• When I use a reference to something everyone would know

• A magic trick

Alliteration

• same ends sounds

• Same beginning sounds

• middle sounds

• literary

• cousin to the alligator

Comparison of unlike things using "like" or "as"

Juxtaposition

• Compares and contrasts two unlike things by placing them side by side.

• When you put money in and a sing plays for you.

• A pose uncommonly used in karate

• Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medecine go down.

It has been given of human qualities but is not human.

A sound in the form of a word such as "Bang!"

what is? An unusually sudden realization, illuminating discovery. A revealing scene or moment when a character learns something new. 

If I have asked you once, I have asked you a million times, please put your dishes in the dishwasher after meals.

A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.