Literacy Devices

What is personification

• Giving human traits to non-human things

• comparing 2 unlike things

• a word that makes you hear sound

The stars danced in the night.

• Not personification

• Personification

The brownies were calling my name.

• Personification

• Not Personification

New York City never sleeps.

• Personification

• Not Personification

The flowers danced in the breeze.

• Personification

• Not Personification

what is it called when you make a word sound like how its spelt for example BANG

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

______________ is when most words start with the same sound

Giving human characteristics to a non-living thing.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

Extreme exaggeration but with some truth

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

Writing or Speech that is not meant to be taken literally

• Figurative

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Fable