Recap: Literary devices

2. A figure of speech that uses a tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or quality or idea. It compares two unlike things to illuminate a particular quality or aspect of one of those things. Eg: Her eyes were glistening jewels.
5. When two unlike things are compared — using like or as — in order to illuminate a particular quality or aspect of one of those things.
6. The use of words and phrases to create "mental images" for the reader. These could be visual (sight), auditory (sound), tactile (touch), olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste) or kinaesthetic (movement).
7. The use of words whose sounds imitate the sounds of what they describe. Eg bang, beep, and splash.
8. The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning.
10. The author’s attitude toward the subject matter or toward the reader or audience. Words that could describe this include humorous, gleeful, serious.

1. A figure of speech that gives an inanimate object or abstract idea human traits and qualities, such as emotions, desires, physical gestures and speech. Eg. The wind sang her mournful song through the falling leaves.
3. The repetition of a leading vowel or consonant sound in a phrase. It can take the form of assonance (i.e. the repetition of a vowel) or consonance (the repetition of a consonant).
4. Extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement that is not meant to be taken literally.
9. Fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a text. It is the message the writer/ poet is trying to get across. Popular ones include: beauty, love, courage, death.