Lit Devices #1

Odysseus in The Odyssey or the Chorus in Romeo & Juliet

(They tell us the story...)

• Speaker

• Symbol

• Personification

• Hyperbole

I feel like I've won a golden ticket!

He's smart as Einstein.

Those eyes are my kryptonite.

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Allusion

• Assonance

The tree danced in the wind.

My alarm clock yelled at me this morning.

• Allusion

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

It took an eternity to get to grandma's house!

• Onomatopoeia

• Symbol

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Annie's Aunt has Alligators and Apricots

Bill's Best Buddy is Ben

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

Words that resemble or match the sounds they represent

• Assonance

• Symbol

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Chips & Dip

Stranger Danger

Dumb Luck

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

She was as ugly as a toad.

• Personification

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Simile

You are the apple of my eye.

• Metaphor

• Antagonist

• Simile

• Character Rank

the person telling the story in a work of literature

• Character Motive

• Narrator

• Antagonist

• Protagonist