Literary Devices & Genres

 the attribution of a personal nature or human       
  characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Hyperbole

what is an example of personification?

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid .

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Personification

What's an example of a simile?

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Hyperbole

Give an example of a metaphor.

one thing is said, while another thing is meant.

• Sarcasm
• Irony
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole

Give an example of irony.

a literary device that alludes to a later point in the story

• Foreshadowing
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole

a word that sounds like the noise it describes

• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole