LITERARY DEVICES

Peter Piper picked a peck of picked peppers is an example of:

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

An exaggerated statement is called a...

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

"I haven't seen you in a million years!" is an example of...

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

A description of an object or action that is not literal.

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

"It is raining cats and dogs!" is an example of what? (Is it literally raining animals?)

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• alliteration

She has a "heart of gold" is an example of what? (Can you literally have a heart made of gold?)

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

What literary device uses highly descriptive language that uses the senses?

• hyperbole

• imagery

• irony

"I can hear the popping and crackling as mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan" is an example of what?

• imagery

• irony

• personification

"The tree bark was rough against her skin" is an example of what?

• imagery

• irony

• hyperbole

A hint that you expect the other person to understand what you are referring to.

• allusion

• illusion

• imagery