Literary Elements

The whole world was staring at me!

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Allusion

Life is like a movie

• Metaphor

• Setting

• Characterization

• Simile

Happy hippos hope to hop

• Verbal irony

• Cliche

• Alliteration

• Imagery

Boom!

• Cliche

• Personificaiton

• Pun

• Onomatopeia

Kwame Alexander referencing The Giver

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Allusion

Perhaps it had something to do with living in a dark cupboard, but Harry had always been small and skinny for his age. He looked even smaller and skinnier than he really was because all he had to wear were old clothes of Dudley’s, and Dudley was about four times bigger than he was. Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, and bright green eyes. He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead that was shaped like a bolt of lightning. (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling)

• Cliche

• Characterization

• Allusion

• Pun

And they lived happily ever after

• Resolution

• Setting

• Climax

• Rising Action

The police station got robbed

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Hyperbole

The flowers danced with the new decorations in the garden

• Pun

• Falling Action

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Oh no! What have I done now?

• Characterization

• Rhetorical Question

• Mood

• Metaphor