Literacy Devices St Patricks

The lucky lad who lands a leprechaun will get three wishes to let him go.

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Simile

The Chicago river, dyed green every year for St. Patrick’s Day, swallowed the earth as the green water rose higher and higher.

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

The leprechaun clinked his hammer against the shoes he was making.

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

The shamrocks waltzed in the gentle Irish breeze.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

The leprechaun, like a mischievous child, played tricks on people passing by.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

She was boiling mad when finally reached the end of the rainbow only to realize there was no pot of gold.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

The girl was green with envy when her friend found a four-leaf clover and she didn't.

• Idiom

• Personfication

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

The snakes hissed as they were banished from Ireland by St. Patrick.

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

Go out there and chase the rainbows.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

My Irish grandfather is older than dirt.

• Hyperbole

• Personfication

• Alliteration

• Simile