Literary Devices

Love is Life

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

Love is like a Rose

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Change this simile to a metaphor:

The sky was like granite

• The sky was a moody blanket of darkness

• The sky was dark and grey

• The sky was granite

Oxymoron definition

• Contradicting statements appear together in a sentence

• Similar statements appear together in the same sentence

Terrific Liar

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

Make this an oxymoron:

You look (a)   pretty in that coat.

Draw Mr Kazim

What is Alliteration?

• Repetition of the first letter (or sound) within a group of words

• The sea swathing across vast vistas

• A comparison between two objects

• Symbolism

What is the definition of Onomatopoeia?

• Attributing non-human qualities to humans

• A word that imitates or resembles a sound

• Words that begin with the same sound

Identify the Onomatopoeic word.

The bees buzzed excitedly.

• Bees

• Buzzed

• Excitedly