Literary Devices

A technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading them.

• Literary Devices

• Rhetorical Devices

• Rhetorical Questions

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Describes a series of words in quick succession that all start with the same letter or sound. It lends a pleasing cadence to prose and poetry both.

• alliteration

• metonymy

• allusion

• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.

• Personification

• Tone

• Analogy

• Parallelism

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

Refers to the overall mood and message of your book

• Repetition

• Tone

• Synecdoche

• Euphemism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

It is a common rhetorical device used to add emphasis and stress in writing and speech.

• Oxymoron

• Repetition

• Onompatopoeia

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Often becoming adages or proverbs as people repeat them over and over.

• Aphorism

• Euphemism

• Anthropomorphism

• Parallelism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The signature literary device of the double negative.

• Litotes

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

An exaggerated statement that emphasizes the significance of the statement’s actual meaning

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Appeals to readers’ senses through highly descriptive language.

• Imagery

• Allusion

• Aphorism

• Dramatic Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A writer uses to produce a special effect in his writing and to help readers understand his writing on a deeper level.

• Rhetorical Devices

• Literary Devices

• Rhetorical Questions

• Poetic Devices

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D