Literary Terms and Devices

The repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences

• Alliteration

• Pun

• Assonance

• Allusion

This is an example of:

• Verbal irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• No irony

When the opposite of what is expected happens it is called:

• euphemism

• metaphor

• situational irony

• coincidence

When an object or person stands or represents an idea.

• Personification

• Conflict

• Symbolism

• Euphemism

Zoom!!! Bang!!!! are examples of what?

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• hyperbole

An example of anaphora would be,

• Maybe we will pass the test, maybe we will do well in grade nine, maybe we'll be okay

• She sells sea shells by the seashore

• Anapolis, anaconda

• Good times, bad times.

A play on words is called

• a pun

• a play

• a Dad joke

An example of a pun would be:

• I was struggling to figure out how lightning works then it struck me.

• That got my goat

• You are my sun

• Pay the Pied Piper

"You're my devil, you're my angel" is an example of what?

• simile

• juxtaposition

• oxymoron

• personification

A statement that upon first seen does not make sense, but with context or further understanding, does make sense.

• Idiom

• Irony

• Symbolism

• Paradox