Literary Device Examples

He wandered around with Cupid's arrow in his heart.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

The sun smiles on us today. Night covered the world with a lid of darkness.

• foreshadowing

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Her eyes are twinkling stars.

• symbol

• metaphor

• simile

• irony

Roar

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

Life is like a box of chocolates.

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• irony

• simile

Troy builds a fence in the play "Fences."

• symbol

• personification

• simile

• verbal irony

In the play Oedipus, the audience knows that he has married his mom and killed his dad.

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• verbal irony

• symbol

My mom tells me I am a gem when I fail to do what she has asked.

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• simile

• personification

Sizzle

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

He was a lion in battle.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• verbal irony