Literary Devices

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Literary Devices
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Alliteration

• the repetition of initial consonant sounds in
  neighboring words

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Examples

• sweet smell of success
• a dime a dozen
• And sings a solitary song that whistles in the
  wind

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Imagery

• a set of mental pictures or images

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Examples

• He was a shaggy, thick-fellow his coat was
  greasy about the lapels and pockets, and his hand
  splayed over the cane's crook with a futile sort
  of clinging.

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Sensory Detail

• language that evokes one or all of the five
  senses seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling,
  touching

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Examples

• Sight Onions are brown and round.
• Sound Onions crinkle and crackle when you peel
  the skin like burning logs.
• Smell Onions have a sharp, stingy smell.
• Taste Onions taste very tart.
• Touch Onions outer skin feels like paper.

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Simile

• comparison of two unlike things using like or as

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Examples

• The snow was as white as the clouds in the
  sky.                
• The snow was like silver beads on my coat.

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Metaphor

• comparison of two unlike things using the verb
  "to be" and not using like or as

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Examples

• My dorm is a prison.
• My father is a bear.

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Rhyme

• a pattern of words that contain similar sounds.

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Examples

• My weekend was like any other, I went to a movie
  with Mother.
• The movie was great lots of popcorn I ate.

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Personification

• giving human qualities to animals or objects

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Examples

• The wind whispered to them as they ran through
  the woods.
• The heat ripped the breath from her lungs.
• The leaves danced in the wind.

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Onomatopoeia

• a word that imitates the sound it represents.

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Examples

• splash, wow, gush, kerplunk

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Irony

• Irony is an implied difference between what is
  said and what is meant.

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Three Types of Irony

• verbal irony is when an author says one thing and
  means something else.
• dramatic irony is when an audience perceives
  something that a character in the literature does
  not know.
• irony of situation is a difference between the
  expected result and actual results.

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Examples

• "A fine thing indeed!" he muttered to himself.
• The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry demonstrates
  irony.  

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Hyperbole

• An exaggeration

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Examples
"My sister uses so much makeup,...
she broke a chisel trying to get it off last
night!"
when she takes it off she loses 30 pounds!"