LITERARY

DEVICES
LITERARY DEVICES
These are narrative techniques that add
texture, energy, and excitement to the
narrative, grip the reader's imagination, and
convey information.
LITERARY DEVICES
❑Figures of Speech ❑Rhyme

❑Pause, Stop ❑Point of View

❑Diction ❑Structure
FIGURES OF
SPEECH
Figures of Speech
These are words or phrases used in a
non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid
effect.
Types:
❑Alliteration ❑Irony
❑Anaphora ❑Metaphor
❑Apostrophe ❑Onomatopoeia
❑Assonance ❑Oxymoron
❑Consonance ❑Personification
❑Hyperbole ❑Simile
❑Imagery
It is the repetition of a particular
speech sound – usually a consonant
sound – in a sequence of nearby
words.

1.Alliteration
Examples:
•Becky’s beagle barked and bayed,
becoming bothersome for Billy.
•Nick’s nephew needed some new
notebooks.

1.Alliteration
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/alliteration-examples.html
It is the deliberate repetition of
words/ and or phrases at the
beginning of successive clauses,
sentences or lines.

2.Anaphora
Examples:
•“I want my money right now, right here,
all right?”
•“Buying diapers for the baby, feeding the
baby, playing with the baby: This is what
your life is when you have a baby.”

2.Anaphora
https://literarydevices.net/anaphora/
It is an address to a dead or absent
person as if there were in front of
you.

3.Apostrophe
Examples:
•Oh, trees, how majestic you are as you
throw down your golden leaves.
•Dear love, please don't shoot me with your
Cupid's bow.

3.Apostrophe
http://www.softschools.com/examples/grammar/apostrophe_examples/212/
It is the repetition of identical or
similar vowel sounds.

4.Assonance
Examples:
•"It beats . . . as it sweeps . . . as it
cleans!"
•"I must confess that in my quest I felt
depressed and restless."

4. Assonance
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/assonance-examples.html
It is the repetition of consonants
throughout a sentence or phrase.

5.Consonance
Examples:
•He struck a streak of bad luck.
•I will crawl away the ball.

5. Consonance
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-consonance.html
It is a figure of speech that
exaggerates when describing
something or someone.

6.Hyperbole
Examples:
•I’ve told you to clean your room a
million times!
•I am so hungry, I could eat a horse.

6.Hyperbole
It is the use of vivid and specific
words to create mental images.

7.Imagery
Example:
•I could hear the popping and crackling
as mom dropped the bacon into the
frying pan, and soon the salty, greasy
smell wafted toward me.

7.Imagery
It is a figure of speech used to mean the
opposite of what was actually stated.

8.Irony
Examples:
•It’s raining, great! I can play outside.
•You look pretty with that very tight dress.

8.Irony
It is a figure of speech that does not
use clue words to describe someone
or something when comparing it
with someone or something else that
is similar.

9. Metaphor
Examples:
•You are a god/goddess.
•He is such a crocodile.

9. Metaphor
It is a figure of speech that imitates
the natural sound.

10. Onomatopoeia
Examples:
•I hear the chug-chugging of the train.
•The rustling of the leaves are enchanting.

10. Onomatopoeia
It is a figure of speech in which two
contrasting ideas are joined or
combined to create a particular effect.

11. Oxymoron
Examples:
•Succeeding in this feat is an anticipated
serendipity.
•This moment is a beautiful nightmare
that it will always be remembered.

11. Oxymoron
It is a figure of speech used to
represent a thing or idea.

12. Personification
Examples:
•The trees danced with the wind.
•The table stomped its feet.

12. Personification
It is a figure of speech that uses the
words like, as, and similar to describe
someone or something by comparing it
with someone or something else that is
similar.

13. Simile
Examples:
•You are as tall as a tree.
•He is like an angel.

13. Simile