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Literary devices are techniques used in writing to convey ideas or enhance meaning. Metaphors compare two unlike things without using "like" or "as". Similes compare things using "like" or "as". Imagery describes things exactly as they are. Analogies highlight similarities between two seemingly unlike things. Symbolism uses one thing to represent another. Personification gives human traits to non-human things. Hyperbole exaggerates for effect. Irony reveals a difference between expectations and reality. Onomatopoeia uses words that imitate sounds.

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Literary devices are techniques used in writing to convey ideas or enhance meaning. Metaphors compare two unlike things without using "like" or "as". Similes compare things using "like" or "as". Imagery describes things exactly as they are. Analogies highlight similarities between two seemingly unlike things. Symbolism uses one thing to represent another. Personification gives human traits to non-human things. Hyperbole exaggerates for effect. Irony reveals a difference between expectations and reality. Onomatopoeia uses words that imitate sounds.

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Literary devices:

Metaphor - that imaginatively draws a comparison between two unlike things.


Metaphors can make prose more muscular or imagery more vivid:
1. “Exhaustion is a thin blanket tattered with bullet holes.” ―If Then, Matthew De
Abaitua (vivid)
2. “But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their
locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.” ―Rabbit, Run, John Updike
(vivid)
3. “The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid near and nearer the sill
of the world.” —Lord of the Flies, William Golding (vivid)
4. “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is
the sun!” —Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare (describes people in
unexpected way)
5. “Her mouth was a fountain of delight.” —The Storm, Kate Chopin
6. “Bill is an early bird.”
7. “love is a battlefield”
Simile - that compares two unlike things using the words “like” or “as.”
1. “I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills”
2. “dead as a doornail”.
3. He’s as thin as a rail!
4. His heart was thumping like a drum,
5. Eat like a pig
6. Bright as the sun

Imagery – describes things exactly as they are without hidden or symbolic meaning.
1. “The sky was periwinkle blue with a few scattered, wispy clouds.”
2. “The baby was as pudgy as a marshmallow and had giant brown eyes.”
3. “The sky was as blue as the ocean and the clouds sailed across it like white
boats.”
4. “The blanket was as soft as cat’s fur.
5. “Her perfume smelled like a garden of fresh roses in bloom.”
Analogy - compares two seemingly unlike things to help draw a conclusion by
highlighting their similarities.
1. “My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what
you’re gonna get.”
2. “Finding a good man is as easy as finding a needle in a haystack.”
3. “That’s as useful as rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.”
4. Life is a journey with its share of twists and turns.
5. The classroom was a zoo during the group activity.
6.
Symbolism - which a person, situation, word, or object is used to represent another
thing.
1. having piercing green eyes that fixate on others.

2. Butterfly = transformation

3. Owl = knowledge, wisdom

4. rainbow symbolizes hope

5. storm brewing on the horizon


Personification – endows non-human subjects with human characteristics.

1. The smile melted off his face.


2. Time flies when you’re having fun
3. “Actions speak louder than words”(idioms)
4. Stars winked in the midnight sky
5. The engine gave one final protest before the car shuddered to a stop.
Hyperbole - over-exaggeration to emphasize a point or to be humorous.
1. "Why does a boy who's fast as a jet take all day and sometimes two to get to
school?"
2. her eyes were gray and sharp like the points of two picks."
3. My hair has been nailed back with my mother’s black hairpins to my skull.
4. “I was in line at the RMV forever.”
5. They ran like a speed of light
6. The lesson was taking forever
Irony -
1. “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”
2. May the odds be ever in your favor”(verbally ironic)
3. A librarian yells across the library “ keep your voices down!”
4. A popular teenager bullies a girl at school for failing a test, but she herself hasn’t
realized that she also failed.
5. A man dropped his eyeglasses and cant find them because he can’t see

Onomatopoeia
1. Makes my heart go pit-a-pat
2. heard the clack on stone
3. Only a scraping of shoes on the mat?
4. Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor.
5. “‘Tis some visitor,” I muttered

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