Writing Tricks

Uses the words “like” or “as” to compare one object with another to suggest they are alike or similar.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• appositive

He was busy as a bee.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

Compares two things that are not related to each other.

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Her eyes were jewels, sparkling in the sun.

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Giving human characteristics to animals or objects.

• appositive

• hyperbole

• idiom

• personification

The flowers danced in the breeze.

• alliteration

• idiom

• personification

• hyperbole

A huge exaggeration, often humorous.

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• coordinate adectives

He was so hungry, he ate the whole cow for lunch, tail and all!

• alliteration

• appositive

• personification

• hyperbole

The repetition of the initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• consonoance

• onomatopoeia

Nelson never knows when Noah naps in class.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• coordinate adjectives