Literary Terms & Devices

Comparing unlike things using like, as, than, etc.

Direct or implied comparison

When words sound the same

Type of literature

A figure of speech that cannot be interpreted literally

ABBA and ABAB are examples of what?

Word choice

Outside reference to something or someone important

Rhyme within a line of poetry

Repetition of beginning consonant sounds

Writing about a single subject

Direct or implied comparison

Using language that appeals to our senses to describe something

Author's message to the reader

Feeling you get from the reading

The problem the story revolves around

The narrator is outside the story but knows many characters' thoughts

When the opposite of what you expect happens

Giving human qualities to inanimate objects

The way a poem flows together

Type of literature

Using something concrete to represent something abstract

Extended comparison

Words that mimic sounds

Repeating a words or phrase

Speaking to an object of absent person

Writing by someone who experienced the event

Treating something as if it were a person

Author's attitude

Extreme exaggeration

Narrator is a character telling the story