Speak 3-24 Literary Devices

"The school bus wheezes to my corner" (3)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• irony

"I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic" special, looking for someone, anyone, to sit next to" (5)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• irony

"I dive into the stream of fourth-period lunch students and swim down the hall to the cafeteria" (7)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• irony

"Mr. Neck makes a note in his book. 'I knew you were trouble the first time I saw you. I've taught here for twenty-four years and I can tell what's going on in a kid's head just by looking in their eyes'" (9)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• irony

"Art follows lunch, like dream follows nightmare" (9)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• irony

'"But there's a catch -- by the end of the year you must figure out how to make your object say something, express an emotion, speak to everyone who looks at it'" (12)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• irony

"If she can't find enough employees for September, she'll be in deep doo-doo when the holiday season hits" (15)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• irony

"The couch has two personalities: 'Melinda inhaling pepperoni and mushroom' and 'No one ever eats in the family room, no ma'am'" (15)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• irony

"I want to grab her by the neck and shake her and scream at her to stop treating me like dirt" (21)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• irony

"I have been dropped like a hot Pop Tart on a cold kitchen floor" (21)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• irony