Literary Devices

A direct comparison between two unlike things, using "like" or "as"

An author's use of hints or clues to suggest events that will take place later in the story.

A comparison between two unlike things, without using the words "like" or "as"

By using details to describe the way that something looks, sounds, smells, tastes or feels like.

Stating something over, and over, and over again.

A scene that takes the reader back in time to reveal information about the story.

paradox

An exaggeration

Giving human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object.

A question asked for dramatic effect rather than to get an answer.

The use of a word whose meaning resembles the sound it makes when said out loud.

When a writer tells the reader directly what kind of person a character is.