LITERARY DEVICES

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LITERARY DEVICES
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ONOMATOPOEIA

• Literary device where the words sound is
  reflective of its definition.
• Example pop, bang, whoosh, swish

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HYPERBOLE

• Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis
• Example his hose were a world too wide.

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SIMILE

• Comparison using like or as (sometimes
  than)
• Example the schoolboymoving like snail

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PERSONIFICATION

• Giving human qualities to inhuman things
• Example The eagle grasps the crag with his
  hands

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REPETITION

• The repeating of a word or phrase for emphasis or
  rhythm.
• Example The bells, bells, bells/bells, bells,
  bells, bells.

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ALLITERATION

• Repetition of initial vowel or consonant sound
• Example Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
  peppers.

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METAPHOR

• An implied comparison
• Example That boy is a tiger on the football
  field.

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IAMBIC PENTAMETER

• Metrical form characterized as having five feet
  per line with the iamb (/) being the dominant
  foot.
• Example My mistress eyes are nothing like the
  sun

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Assonance

• Repetition of a vowel noise in a series of words
• Example The loose noose on the gooses caboose

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Allusion

• A reference to another piece of literature, a
  place, myth, popular culture, or another person.
• Example Tell me what they lordly name is on
  this nights Plutonian shore

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Consonance

• Repetition of a consonant noise in a series of
  words (not necessarily at the beginning).
• The uGLy GLove lay anGLed and manGLed