Literary Devices and Narrative Techniques

A short, memorable saying that is based on facts and is considered to be true by most people

• Adage
• Allusion
• Euphemism
• Allegory

The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a series of words

• Alliteration
• Allusion
• Allegory
• Adage

Abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures and events

• Allegory
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, or thing that is typically well-known

• Allusion
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it (alligator : reptile :: frog : amphibian)

• Analogy
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A short and interesting story or an amusing retelling of an event

• Anecdote
• Allegory
• Synechdoche 
• Onomatopoeia 

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.W.9-10.3

Particular aspects of a subject are exaggerated to create a silly or comic effect

• Caricature
• Anecdote
• Metaphor
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

An expression that has been overused to the extent that it loses its original meaning or novelty

• Cliché
• Aphorism
• Anachronism
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The use of informal words, phrases, or even slang in a piece of writing

• Colloquialism
• Cliché
• Jargon
• Hyperbole

A meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly

• Connotation
• Denotation
• Definition
• Inference

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5B

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4