Literary Devices

A deliberate exaggeration made for effect.

A writer's intentional reuse of a sound, word, phrase, or sentence.

A comparison of two seemingly unlike things using the words like or as.

A work in which the characters, events, or settings symbolize, or represent something else.

Language that is informal and conversational. A word or expression commonplace in a specific language, region, or historical period.

Anything that stands for or represents both itself and something else.

A figure of speech in which one thing is written about as if it were another.

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work of art, music, or literature.

The figurative language used to create word pictures, or images.

The difference between appearance and reality. (There are three version of this literary device: Dramatic __________, Verbal __________, and Situational __________.