Literacy Devices

Animals and non-living objects are the main characters

and are given human qualities

• Figurative

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Fable

Identical or similar concluding syllables in different words are repeated

• Rhyme

• Rhyme

  Scheme

• Alliteration

• Hubris

• Onomatopoeia

The pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza

• Rhyme

• Rhyme

  Scheme

• Alliteration

• Hubris

• Onomatopoeia

repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words

• Rhyme

• Rhyme

  Scheme

• Alliteration

• Hubris

• Onomatopoeia

Mimics the sound of a real word

• Rhyme

• Rhyme

  Scheme

• Alliteration

• Hubris

• Onomatopoeia

Use of words that is strange or funny or opposite to expectation

• Irony

• Suspense

• Symbol

• Satire

Gives an uneasy feeling to reader when they don't know

what is going to happen next

• Irony

• Suspense

• Symbol

• Satire

An object that has a literal meaning in a story but

suggests or represents other meanings

• Irony

• Suspense

• Symbol

• Satire

Use irony or humor or sarcasm to ridicule or

make fun of a person or a situation

• Irony

• Suspense

• Symbol

• Satire

Comparing 2 things not using like or as

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole