Literary Devices

What is a simile?

• two unlike things are shown to be alike

• Comparison of two things using like or as

• an extreme exaggeration

What is a metaphor?

• Two unlike things that are shown to be alike. Does not use "like" or "as"

• Giving human qualities to animals

• A comparison of two things by using the words like or as

What is a hyperbole?

• Giving human qualities to a nonliving things

• Repeat the sound it represents

• An exaggerated statement

What is personification?

• Human characteristics given to a non-human things and animals

• Giving human qualities to a human

• An exaggerated statement

what is onomatopoeia?

• When all the first letters in a sentence are the same

• A repeated sound, sound words.

• An exaggerated statement

What is an oxymoron?

• Comparison of two things using like or as

• An exaggerated statement

• Two things that are put together for emphasis. (They contradict each other)

What is an Idiom?

• Repeated sound

• Reference to a famous character or event

• Saying what you don't mean for emphasis. These words are not to be taken literally.

A pun ___?

• Uses different meaning of the text (often humorous)

• An exaggerated statement.

• Words that have opposite meaning

"Her cheeks were like roses." "She was as brave as a lion." These are examples of a(n)?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

"Fog comes on little cat feet." "The assignment was a breeze." "My father is a rock." These are examples of a(n)?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification