QUIZS: Literary Devices

Comparison using 'like' or 'as'

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

Techniques a writer uses to create and develop a character by what:

*he/she does

*other characters say about him/her, or how they react

*the author reveals directly or through a narrator

• satire

• irony

• figurative language

• characterization

Person, place, or thing that represents something beyond itself, most often something concrete or tangible that represents an abstract idea

• hyperbole

• style

• symbol

• characterization

Language that has meaning beyond the literal meaning; also known as "figures of speech"

Examples: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification

• point of view

• figurative language

• satire

• alliteration

Perspective from which the story is told

• humor

• point of view

• imagery

• foreshadowing

The quality of a literary or informative work that makes the character and/or situations seem funny, amusing, or ludicrous

• alliteration

• irony

• humor

• dialect

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art to enrich the reading experience by adding meaning.

• allusion

• flashback

• figurative language

• dialect

Interruption of the chronological (time) order to present something that occurred before the beginning of the story

• flashback

• point of view

• foreshadowing

• irony

The repetition of initial consonant sounds used especially in poetry to emphasize and link words as well as to create pleasing, musical sound

• characterization

• dialect

• alliteration

• Imagery

The distinctive way that a writer uses language including such factors as word choice, sentence length, arrangement, and complexity, and the use of figurative language and imagery

• style

• suspense

• humor

• imagery