Literary Devices

What is hyperbole?

• Exaggerations not meant to be taken literally

• Comparing things using like or as

• Comparing things without using like or as

• Hyper

What is personification?

• Humans doing human things

• Giving non-human things human qualities

• Just a person

• Using like or as

What is an oxymoron?

• Giving human qualities to non-human things

• A sound word

• A figure of speech that is contradictory (faithfully unfaithful)

• Not using like or as

What is an idiom?

• A commonly used expression that does not literally mean what it is saying

• Comparing two things

• Comparing two things using like or as

• Pie

Which is an example of an idiom?

• That test was easy.

• He was so mean today.

• The test was as easy as pie!

• She was sweet as sugar.

What is alliteration?

• Talking about The Wizard of Oz

• Using the same letter at the beginning of multiple words in a sentence.

• Using various letters in a sentence.

• Yes

What is a simile?

• Rhyming

• Two things

• Comparing two things WITHOUT using like or as.

• Comparing two things using like or as.

What is a metaphor?

• Using the same letter to start multiple words in a sentence.

• Comparing two things by referring to it as something else (her eyes are the ocean).

• Comparing two things using like or as.

• A figure of speech

Which is an example of metaphor?

• My hands were sweaty.

• Her eyes were like the ocean.

• His words were sugar.

• Knees weak, arms spaghetti.

Which is an example of simile?

• Her eyes were like the ocean.

• I was crying.

• My tears were a waterfall.

• I was so hungry I could eat a horse.