Literary Devices - English

Definition of Aural imagery

• Describing specific sounds that

  are happening in a story.

• is used when writers want to

  appeal to a readers sense of

  smell.

Definition of Olfactory Imagery

• Appeals to the sense of sight.

• is used when writers want to

  appeal to a readers sense of

  smell

Definition of Visual Image

• Appeals to the sense of sight.

• The way that someone speaks

  or how a piece of writing

  sounds.

Definition of Symbol

• Appeals to the sense of sight.

• A literal object that stands for

  or represents something else.

Definition of rhetorical question

• A question which is meant to

  be unanswered.

• A set of (…) 3 dots used to

  indicate that words have been left out, or to mark a pause in speech.

Definition of Ellipses

• A set of (…) 3 dots used to

  indicate that words have been left out, or to mark a pause in

  speech.

• Having two opposite ideas in a

  sentence.

Definition of Antithesis

• Having two opposite ideas in a

  sentence.

• The way that someone speaks

  or how a piece of writing

  sounds

Definition of Tone

• The way that someone speaks

  or how a piece of writing

  sounds

• Having two opposite ideas in a

  sentence.