1. Figurative Language Devices

2. Metaphor
Direct comparison of two unalike objects

3. Personification
Giving human characteristics to something non-human

4. Simile
Comparison using “like” or “as”

5. Onomatopoeia
Words that make sounds

6. Imagery
Painting pictures with words

7. Hyperbole
Extended exaggeration

8. Paradox
Contradiction in terms

9. Irony
The opposite of what you might expect

10. Allusion
A reference to another work of literature. A Biblical allusion is a reference to the Bible.

11. Symbolism
An object or concept represents something else.

12. Foreshadowing
A hint of what is to come

13. Flashback
The story steps back in time to tell something that occurred before the action currently taking place in the story.