Literary Devices ELA (WORK IN PROGRESS)

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Allusion

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A brief, indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical or cultural significance.

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Alliteration

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Words that begin with the same sound are placed close together.

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Assonance is the repetition of similar vowel sounds in words, phrases, or sentences.

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Repetition of similar vowel sounds.

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Foreshadowing

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gives hints or signs about the future

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Hyperbole: A figure of speech that involves extreme exaggeration.

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A figure of speech in which an author or speaker purposely and obviously exaggerates to an extreme.

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Analogy: a technique comparing two unrelated objects for shared qualities.

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a literary technique in which two unrelated objects are compared for their shared qualities

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Irony: two contradicting meanings in a situation, event, image, sentence, phrase, or story.

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Irony is when there are two contradicting meanings in a situation, event, image, sentence, phrase, or story.

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Metaphor: A figure of speech making a direct comparison between unrelated things.

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is a common figure of speech that makes a comparison by directly relating one thing to another unrelated thing.

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Onomatopoeia

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words that sound like what they describe

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Repetition

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the repeating of a word or phrase