Tip #7: Literary Tools, Literary Devices and Poem Types

•These are the techniques an author uses to make their writing better
Essentially they affect you emotionally

Get to know and be able to identify these types:

Word devices
•Metaphor (extended)
•Simile
•Personification
•Hyperbole
•Symbol
•Allusion
•Understatement
•Oxymoron
•Colloquialism
•Jargon
•connotation

Sounds
Similar sounds
•Pun
•Onomatopoeia
Repeated sounds
•Alliteration
•Assonance
•Consonance
Stressful sounds
•Cacophony
•Dissonance
Gentle Term & Sounds
•Euphemism
•Euphony
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Others
•Proverb
•Irony
•dramatic,
•situational,
•verbal
•Paradox
•Flashback/foreshadow
•Epiphany
•Repetition/parallelism

Poem Types
1.Narrative
2.Sonnet
3.Limerick
4.Calligram
5.Free Verse
6.Haiku
7.Acrostic
8.Kenning

Story types
1.Frame
2.Allegory
3.Fable
4.satire

Characterization
1.Flat vs round,
2. dynamic vs  static

Irony
Dramatic, verbal, situational

Point of View
1st person
2nd person
3rd person
1.Omniscient
2.Limited Omniscient
3.Objective
4.Stream of Consciousness