LITERARY DEVICES

Allegory
1. Suggests a meaning via metaphoric examples
  1. Your relationship is like a roller coaster: full of ups and downs, without anything stable
Alliteration
1. Creates a repetition of similar sounds in a sentence
  1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickle peppers
Antithesis
1. Creates contrast using two different elements that come together to create one uniform whole
  1. To err is human, to forgive, divine
Anaphora
1. Deliberately repeats the first part of a sentence
  1. My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration.
Hyperbole
1. The author exaggerates the real situation
  1. I'm so hungry I could eat an elephant
Irony
1. The meaning implied is actually different from the literal meaning
  1. She is a poor old lady, with nothing to eat but fruits, meat, fish, vegetables, bread and pasta.
Metaphor
1. Indirectly compares two things that aren't alike but have things in common
  1. Her heart is ice
Metonymy
1. Substitutes a word with another word that is closely related to it
  1. The white house declared that we are in war with Mars
Personification
1. Attaches human traits to things, animals, places
  1. The wise nature helped me
Simile
1. Compares two unrelated and dissimular concepts
  1. He is like a giraffe next to his mother
Synecdoche
1. A part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
  1. She was anxious to see the hand that made the sculpture

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	Created by Sofia Montenegro over 6 years ago