This document defines and provides examples of common literary devices including simile, foreshadowing, rhyme, repetition, oxymoron, metaphor, and implied metaphor. It explains that similes draw comparisons between two unlike things, foreshadowing hints at future events, rhyme involves matching ending sounds of words, and repetition emphasizes words. Oxymorons combine opposites, and metaphors and implied metaphors involve implicit comparisons between objects. Examples of each device are given.

1. are common
structures used in
writing

2. drawing comparisons
between two unrelated and
dissimilar things.

4.  Use the indicative
words,/ phrases
and hints that set
the stage for a
story to unfold.
 Give the reader a
hint of something
that is going to
happen.
Used to
suggest an
upcoming
outcomes to
the story.

6. Rhyming words placed
at the end of the lines
of the prose or poetry.

7. Roses are red
Violets are blue
Beautiful they all may be
But I love you

8.  Refers to the order in which particularly
words rhyme
Ex. A-b-a-b
Roses are red (a)
Violets are blue (b)
Beautiful they all may be (c)
But I love you (b)
Rhyme scheme a-b-c-b

9.  Simple repetition of a word, within
a sentence or a poetical line, with
no particular placement of the
words, in order to secure
emphasis.

10. Example:
Today, as never before, the fates of
men are so intimately linked
to one another that a disaster for one
is a disaster for everybody.
(Natalia Ginzburg, The Little Virtues,
1962)

11.  is the combining of
contraries (opposites)
to portray a particular
image to produce a
striking effect.

12. 1.And faith unfaithful kept him falsely
true.
2. Less is more.
3. It is kinder to be cruel to her this
time.

13. Subject is implied to be
another so as to draw a
comparison between
their similarities and
shared traits.

14. Henry was a lion
on the
battlefield.

16.  1. Simile
 2. Foreshadowing
 3. Rhyme
 4. Repetition
 5. Oxymoron
 6. Metaphor
 Parting is such a sweet sorrow
 Oh loving hate
 Romeo, Romeo
 “the crows in boughs throws endless
brawls”—
 My life is foe of debt!
 “And to ‘thy go like lightning”
 Romeo: By some vile forfeit of the
untimely death