❏ hyperbole❏ understatement❏ paradox ❏ allusion❏ Idiom❏ Metaphor❏ Oxymoron

Literary Devices❏ Imagery❏ Symbolism❏ Personification❏ cliche❏ conceit❏ metonymy❏ simile

• •Hyperbole is a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement

Hyperbole

•Understatement a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is

Understatement

Paradox--a seemingly self contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true; a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically

Paradox

•Allusion is a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place or work of art.

Allusion

Idiom--a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deductible from those of the individual words

Idiom

•A metaphor is a direct comparison between two or more seemingly unrelated subjects

Metaphor

Oxymoron--a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction Example: “faith unfaithful kept him falsely true

Oxymoron

•Imagery is the images of a literary work

Imagery

•Symbol is generally, anything that represents itself and stands for something else.

Symbol

•Personification is giving human qualities to an object, animal, or idea

Personification

Cliche--a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought

Cliche

Conceit--an elaborate metaphor that usually takes several lines if not an entire poem to explore

Conceit

Metonymy--a word, name or expression used as a substitute for something welse which it is closely assocaited.

Metonymy

Synecdoche--a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

Synecdoche

•Simile is directly expresses comparison of two objects or subjects by using "like," "as," or "than."

Simile