Literary Devices

Onomatopoeia - using words that imitate the sound they denote.

Example: From the nursery rhyme - Baa Baa Black Sheep
Example: Bang! went the pistol,
Crash! went the window,
Ouch! went the son of a gun.

Realism - a theory of writing in which the ordinary, familiar, or mundane aspects of life are represented in a straightforward or matter-of-fact manner that is presumed to reflect life as it actually is.

Examples: There are many examples of realism in The Adventures of Huckleberry and Finn. Twain uses realism when he explores the gullibility of society by using the Duke and the King to scandalize people out of their money. Throughout the book, Twain also uses deceit, lying, and hypocrisy as a form of realism to satirize society.