English literary devices

You snore louder than a freight train.

• repetition

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Sarah's seven sisters slept soundly in the sand.

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

Lighting danced across the sky.

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• repetition

He had a deep, genuine, throaty laugh like the sound a dog makes just before he throws up.

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• simile

My teacher is a dragon.

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

Tick-tock, tick-tock... The sound of the clock was all that could be heard in the hospital waiting room.

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Time flies when you're having fun.

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

Ben's temper was a volcano ready to explode.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

He looks as happy as a penguin in a microwave.

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Old Mr Smith has been teaching since the Stone Age.

• repetition

• personification

• hyperbole