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Alliteration
Beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound
Example: “The Twinkling Trout Twisted Below.”
Allusion
A reference to a well-known person, event, or work of literature or mythology.
Example: “He met his Waterloo.”
Antithesis
A direct juxtaposition of structurally parallel words
Example: “Sink or Swim.”
Apostrophe
A form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present
Example: “Michael Jackson sure can dance.”
Assonance
Repetition of accented VOWEL sounds in a series of words
Example: “The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plains.”
Consonance
Repetition of accented CONSONANT sounds in a series of words
“Mike likes his new bike.”
Diction
word choice
Enjambment
the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza in poetry.
Foreshadowing
a literary device used to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story.
Hyperbole
deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration often used to convey either serious or comedic effect
Example: “The shot heard ‘round the world.”
Verbal Irony
When a speaker or narrator says something and means the opposite.
Example: “It’s easy to stop smoking, I’ve done it many times.”
Situational Irony
When a situation turns out differently from what is expected.
Example: “The Harvard graduate ended up on Skid Row.”
Dramatic Irony
When the audience knows something that the characters do not.
Example: Romeo and Juliet’s death.
Metaphor
The comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as” or “is”
Example: “Time is money”
Onomatopoeia
Use of words that mimic the sounds they describe
Example: “BOOOOM!!!!!!”
Oxymoron
A form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression.
Example: “Controlled Chaos”
Paradox
When the elements of a statement contradict each other.
Example: “Much madness is divinest sense.”
Personification
A kind of metaphor that give inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics.
Example: “The wind cried in the dark.”
Pun
A play on words that are identical/similar in sound, but have sharply different meanings.
Example: “This project will make dollars and sense for all of us.”
Simile
Comparison of two different things/ideas through the use of words “like” or “as”
Example: “The warrior fought like a lion.”
Suspense
Quality of a literary work that makes the audience tense.
Synecdoche
A part of something that signifies the whole thing.
“I got a new set of wheels.”
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Example: house
Connotation
The implied definition of a word
Example: home
