This document defines and provides examples of various literary devices used in writing including: metaphor, symbolism, repetition, alliteration, juxtaposition, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, imagery, personification, irony, paradox, anaphora, enjambment, simile, pun, refrain, rhyme, stanza, couplet, and quatrain. Literary devices are techniques that writers use to convey ideas, themes, or meanings effectively through language like the use of figurative language, structure, or other techniques.
This document defines and provides examples of various literary devices used in writing including: metaphor, symbolism, repetition, alliteration, juxtaposition, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, imagery, personification, irony, paradox, anaphora, enjambment, simile, pun, refrain, rhyme, stanza, couplet, and quatrain. Literary devices are techniques that writers use to convey ideas, themes, or meanings effectively through language like the use of figurative language, structure, or other techniques.
This document defines and provides examples of various literary devices used in writing including: metaphor, symbolism, repetition, alliteration, juxtaposition, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, imagery, personification, irony, paradox, anaphora, enjambment, simile, pun, refrain, rhyme, stanza, couplet, and quatrain. Literary devices are techniques that writers use to convey ideas, themes, or meanings effectively through language like the use of figurative language, structure, or other techniques.
This document defines and provides examples of various literary devices used in writing including: metaphor, symbolism, repetition, alliteration, juxtaposition, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, imagery, personification, irony, paradox, anaphora, enjambment, simile, pun, refrain, rhyme, stanza, couplet, and quatrain. Literary devices are techniques that writers use to convey ideas, themes, or meanings effectively through language like the use of figurative language, structure, or other techniques.
1) Hyperbole: A figure of speech which uses extreme exaggeration.
2) Foreshadow: be a warning or indication of (a future event). 3) Metaphor: a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison 4) Symbolism: that uses symbols, be they words, people, marks, locations, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning 5) Repetition: when a single word or phrase is used multiple times in short succession for effect 6) Alliteration: The repetition of initial sounds in words within a line or verse of poetry. 7) Juxtaposition: the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. 8) Oxymoron: A device where seemingly opposite words are placed together for effect. 9) Onomatopoeia: The use of words which suggest their meaning when pronounced. (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle ). 10) Assonance: is the repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem creating internal rhymes. 11) Consonance: is a literary device that occurs when two words have the same consonant sound following different vowel sounds. 12) Imagery: The mental impression summoned up by a word, phrase or sentence. It suggests to the reader what to think and feel. 13) Personification: When an inanimate object or abstract image is given human qualities or abilities. 14) Irony: as a literary device is a situation in which there is a contrast between expectation and reality. It is associated with both tragedy and humor. 15) Paradox: apparently self-contradictory statement, the underlying meaning of which is revealed only by careful scrutiny 16) Anaphora: repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect 17) Enjambment: is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break. 18) Simile : A figure of speech that compares two things by using “like” or “as.” 19) Pun: A play on words 20) Refrain: A line or group of lines which are repeated in the course of a poem (usually at the end of each stanza) 21) Rhyme: Two words which end with identical sounds (rhyme depends on sound, not spelling) 22) Stanza: A group of lines which form a division of a poem 23) Couplet: A stanza of two lines 24) Quatrain: A stanza of four lines