literary devices

ALLITERATION is the reetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.
EXAMPLE: sweet smell of success, a dime a dozen, bigger and better...

IRONY is an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant.
There are three kinds of irony

1. verbal irony is when an author says one thing and means something else.
2. dramatic irony is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
3. irony of situationis a discrepancy between the expected result and actual result.

METAPHOR is a comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

EXAMPLE: He is a pig. Thou art sunshine.

ONOMATOPOEIA is a word that imitates the sound it represents.

EXAMPLE: splash, wow, gush, bang

PERSONIFICATION is giving human qualities to animals or objects

EXAMPLE: a smiling moon, a jovial sun

PUNS is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect. For example, homonyms.

SIMILE is the comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

EXAMPLE: He eats like a pig. Vines like golden prisons.