KS3 literary devices

Simile

• •        giving human features/actions/emotions to a non-living object (the mountain is spying) 

• •        as/like (shines like the sun)

• exaggeration

Metaphor

• •        when something is something it is not (Juliet is the sun, her eyes are diamonds)

• as/like (shines like the sun)

• •        creating pictures of ideas in our minds through description.

Personification

• •        a mountain is physically challenging but could also symbolise challenge in life generally

• exaggeration

• •        giving human features/actions/emotions to a non-living object (the mountain is spying) 

Symbolism

• a mountain is physically challenging but could also symbolise challenge in life generally

• •        when something is something it is not (Juliet is the sun, her eyes are diamonds)

• words following on and beginning with the same letter

Alliteration

• as…as/like (shines like the sun)

• giving human features/actions/emotions to a non-living object (the mountain is spying) 

• •        words following on and beginning with the same letter

Hyperbole

• •        when something is something it is not (Juliet is the sun, her eyes are diamonds)

• exaggeration

• words that sound like a noise (whoosh)

Onomatopoeia

• words that sound like a noise (whoosh)

• words following on and beginning with the same letter

• exaggeration

Imagery

• exaggeration

• as…as/like (shines like the sun)

• creating pictures of ideas in our minds through description.