This resource uses classic and modern literature to illustrate the meaning and use of literary devices, techniques used by an author to convey meaning and to make the story more interesting. It covers Connotation, Dialogue, Dialect, Imagery, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Allusion, Hyperbole, Understatement, Symbol, Sarcasm, Oxymoron, Paradox, Irony, Pun, Onomatopoeia and Alliteration.