Literary Devices

When a character has a conflict with someone else

• man vs nature

• man vs man

• man vs self

When two contradicting words are combined

• Alliteration

• oxymoron

• Personification

• Hyperbole

A Comparison Using like or as

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Similie

• Oxymoron

When something hints to a later event in the story

• Flashback

• Irony

• Foreshadowing

• Point of view

When I or me is used in the story

• 3rd person point of view

• 2nd person point of view

• 1st person point of view

• Point of view

The life lesson of a story

• Personification

• Theme

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

When something happens that is the opposite of what we expect

• Situational Irony

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Verbal Irony

When you have to infer to find out what a Character is like

• Theme

• plot

• Indirect Characterization

• irony

When an inanimate object is given human characteristics

• Similie

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Rising Action

When the story tells us the way a character is

• indirect Characterization

• Direct Characterization