Literary Devices

Front

My pencil danced across the stage

Back

personification

Front

The sun glistens in the waves

Back

imagery

Front

His face was a mask of anger

Back

metaphor

Front

Voice like a foghorn

Back

simile

Front

"Don't speak all at once" said to a quiet group of students

Back

irony

Front

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

Back

alliteration

Front

"But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

Back

comparison

Front

Romeo's line in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: 'My life were better ended by their hate, than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.'

Back

Foreshadow