Literary Terms

Used to express the opposite of the literal meaning

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Irony

• Motif

Referring to another work of literature, historical event, or celebrity

• imagery

• simile

• allusion

• satire

A comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Imagery

when an object is used to signify something else

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Sybolism

• Oxymoron

Giving human qualities to a non-human thing

• Personification

• Symbolism

• Anaphora

• Metaphor

phrases that use two opposite words to describe one thing

• oxymoron

• synecdoche

• apostorphe

• anaphora

Evokes a sensory experience in the reader

• imagery

• tone

• mood

• theme

The repetition of a letter or sound at the beginning of each word or each stressed syllable

• Alliterartion

• Assonance

• Repetition

• Anaphora

A comparison describing two unlike things without the use of key words.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Synechdoche

The use of words which sounds like the noise they refer to

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

• Rhyme

• Apostrophe