Literary Devices

I'm not very good at basketball, but I'll give it a shot.

• Simile

• Metaphore

• Allusion

• Idiom

The wind was blowing so hard, the sun was scared to come out.

• metaphor

• personification

• symbolism

• symbolism

"Clean up your room! It's a pig pen!"

• metaphor

• simile

• allusion

• personification

The boy believed black birds bite.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Allusion

My mother's hair is as soft as a cloud.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Euphemism

I can do a cartwheel! It's a piece of cake!

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Idiom

I could hear the popping and crackling as mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

• Euphemism

• Cliche

I need to look for a new job because I was let go today :(

• Cliche

• Metaphor

• Euphemism

• Symbolism

The golden yellow sunlight filtered down through the pale new leaves on the oak trees, coming to rest on Jessica's brown toes that were splayed in the red Georgia mud.

• Idiom

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Simile

You should never judge a book by its cover!

• Oxymoron

• Forshadowing

• Pun

• Cliche