Literary Devices

Occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. 

• Alliteration
• Assonanace
• Personification
• Idiom

Figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action which is not meant to take literally.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron
• Theme

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be take literally.

• Oxymoron
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Hyperbole

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another of a different kind used to make a description more vivid using like or as.

• Idiom
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole

Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• Personification
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Assonance

You could have knocked me over with a feather.

• Hyperbole 
• Oxymoron
• Allegory
• Assonance

Watching this show is like watching grass grow.

• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Rhyme Scheme

I am broken hearted.  

• Metaphor
• Idiom
• Oxymoron
• Hyperbole

Sally sells sea shells at the sea shore.

• Idiom
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Oxymoron

They wore jeans, which made me stand out like a sore thumb.

• metaphor
• Hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• Simile