Literary Devices

Stating something is something else

• imagery

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Giving animals or things human-like characteristics.

• rhyme

• irony

• personification

Same sound at the end of words.

• rhyme

• alliteration

• idioms

Comparing two things using like or as.

• metaphor

• imagery

• simile

A phrase when taken literally means something different than it does figuratively.

• irony

• idioms

• imagery

The repetition of the initial consonant at least twice in a row.

• rhyme

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Creating a picture in the reader's mind using adjectives and sensory words.

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• imagery

The use of words to imitate sound.

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• simile

Words or phrases that actually mean the opposite of what they say; sarcasm.

• personification

• irony

• idioms

Extreme exaggeration.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole