Review Analyzing Literary Devices

The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words or in a stresses syllable.

• alliteration
• assonance
• oxymoron
• pun

Giving human characteristics to objects and phenomena.

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

A comparison of two things, often using the words "like" or "as".

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

The use of words that imitate the sounds they describe.

• alliteration
• assonance
• onomatopoeia
• pun

Where the true meaning behind a statement is intentionally quite the opposite of its literal meaning.

• pun
• hyperbole
• irony
• simile

What are these examples of?

• Personification
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Flashback

_{Language that appeals to the five senses and uses vivid details to help the reader feel and imagine what's going on.}

• Tone
• Falling action
• Mood
• Imagery

You see your baby sister picking up a china plate. "Don't touch that," you say, "I don't want it to break." As you take it away from her, you drop the plate and it shatters.

• irony

• climax

• mood

• narrator

The flowers are dancing beside the lake.

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

I’m a chicken when it comes to getting an injection.

• metaphor

• imagery

• personification

• hyperbole