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Literary Devices

Literary Devices or Figures of Speech

Figures of Speech or rhetorical figures are found in English literature and are divided into various categories according to some characteristics like analogy, association,sound,sense, construction etc.

Here are some important literary devices we need to learn
  • Allegory
  • Alliteration
  • Allusion
  • Analogy
  • Anaphora
  • Anticipation
  • Anti-Climax
  • Antithesis
  • Apostrophe
  • Assonance
  • Asyndeton
  • Bathos
  • Chiasmus
  • Climax
  • Conceit
  • Diacope
  • Epigram
  • Epistrophe
  • Euphemism
  • Exclamation
  • Fable
  • Hyperbole
  • Imagery
  • Innuendo
  • Interrogation
  • Irony
  • Juxtaposition
  • Kenning
  • Litotes
  • Metaphor
  • Metonymy
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Oxymoron
  • Pathetic Fallacy
  • Parable
  • Paradox
  • Peripharasis
  • Personification
  • Personal Metaphor
  • Polysyndeton
  • Prolepsis
  • Pun
  • Sarcasm
  • Simile
  • Synecdoche
  • Synesthesia
  • Tautology
  • Transfer Epithet
  • Vision
  • Zeugma
Now we will group the figures of speech on the basis of the characteristics:

Similarities or resemblance
  • Simile
  • Allegory
  • Metaphor
  • Analogy
  • Parable
  • Fable
Association
  • Metonymy
  • Transfer Epithet
  • Synecdoche
  • Allusion
Contrast or difference
  • Antithesis
  • Oxymoron
  • Epigram
  • Paradox
  • Climax
  • Anti-Climax
Imagination
  • Personification
  • Personal Metaphor
  • Pathetic Fallacy
  • Apostrophe
  • Hyperbole
  • Vision
Indirectness
  • Innuendo
  • Irony
  • Sarcasm
  • Peripharasis
  • Euphemism
  • Litotes
Sound
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Pun
  • Alliteration
  • Assonance
Construction
  • Interrogation
  • Exclamation
  • Chiasmus
  • Zeugma
  • Asyndeton
  • Polysyndeton
  • Hyperbole
  • Anaphora
Miscellaneous
  • Tautology
  • Anticipation
  • Epistrophe

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