Literary Devices

"The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside

Couldn’t keep it in, heaven knows I’ve tried"

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• personification

"It's time to be a big girl now

And big girls don't cry

Don't cry

Don't cry

Don't cry"

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• personification

“Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.”

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

"I'm so hungry I could eat a whole elephant!" is an example of a __________________.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

"The stairs groaned in agony as Phillip carried the heavy boxes." is an example of a ___________________.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Idiom

"There were a million replies that popped into her head." is an example of a _____________

• Similie

• Personification

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

Which figurative language gives human qualities to objects, animals, or ideas?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Sensory Detail

What literary device is this an example of:

I smelled the warm, sweet, all-pervasive smell of silage, as well as the sour dirty laundry spilling over the basket in the hall. I could pick out the acrid smell of Claire’s drenched diaper, her sweaty feet, and her hair crusted with sand.

• Imagery

• Allusion

• Personification

• Irony

A direct representation or a comparison where one thing is another

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia
• Pun

A mental picture described using sight, smell, taste, hearing, or touch.

• Imagery
• Image
• Imagination
• Imagerie