Common Literary Devices

Common Literary Devices are tools writers use to add meaning, clarity, and impact to their work. Devices like alliteration and imagery enhance sound and sensory detail, while metaphor, simile, and symbolism create deeper connections between ideas. Allusion, analogy, and motif build layers of meaning across a text. Writers use foreshadowing to hint at future events, irony and paradox to challenge expectations, and hyperbole for emphasis. Personification, oxymoron, and symbolism help make abstract ideas vivid and memorable for readers.