Literary devices

When an author gives an inanimate object human or living characteristics. For example: the trees danced in the wind.

• personification
• alliteration
• simile
• oxymoron

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An over-exaggeration. For example: I was standing in line forever.

• personification
• cliche
• metaphor
• hyperbole

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A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as. 
He was a bear in the the goal.

• simlie
• paradox
• metaphor
• allusion

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Mark is as fast as a cheetah. This is an example of the following:

• simile
• metaphor
• idiom
• analogy

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Fred ate five French fries on Friday.

• simile
• alliteration
• hyperbole
• cliche

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POW!
Bang!
Buzzzzzz....

• alliteration
• personification
• Onomatopoeia
• assonance

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My love is like a red, red rose.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

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The baby was as snug as a bug in a rug.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

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In the film and book Charlotte’s Web, Charlotte explains to Wilbur that all living things eventually die. Charlotte then has to spin a web to save Wilbur’s life. In the process of spinning her web, Charlotte expends all her energy and dies.

• Allusion & Imagery
• Simile & Metaphor
• Foreshadowing & Irony
• Personification & Mood

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In Lemony Snicket, most of the inhabitants of the island on which the Baudelaires find themselves in The End are characters from The Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Imagery

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