Literary Devices (use with LR before poetry test)

A metrical line where the middle and end words rhyme with one another.

An author's word choice

Atmosphere or feeling we get from the story

Writer's attitude toward his or her subject

Giving inanimate objects human characteristics

No set rhyme or meter.

The angle of considering an idea: 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person.

The person whose views are being shown within the piece.

The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

Reference to a well-known person, event, place, literary work or work of art.

A comparison between two things using like or as

A description that appeals to one's five senses

A stressed and unstressed pattern of syllables.

An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal meaning. Can be pos or neg.

Comparison of two things without using like or as.

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Anything that stands for or represents something else

The same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words.

Universal idea or lesson about life; understood by most cultures