Literary Devices

When authors give human traits to animals or some other lifeless object

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

A writer’s vivid description that helps readers to see, hear, feel, touch, or smell what is being described

• imagery

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

When two or more words in a sentence share the same beginning consonant sound

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• alliteratioin

A band of bees barged brazenly into our back yard.

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

Like a heavenly choir, the birds chirped outside my window.

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• allusion

The stars are diamonds in the clear winter sky.

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

The baby shattered my eardrums with his non-stop crying.

• imagery

• hyperbole

• personification

• allusion

I was lost in a sea of nameless faces.

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

The wheels of justice turn slowly.

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• allusion

The truth was like a bad taste on his tongue.

• hyperbole

• alliteratioin

• metaphor

• simile