Definitions 1
Comparing two things using "like" or "as."
Simile
Giving human qualities to non-human things.
Personification
What is symbolism?
The authors use of a person, object, situation, or color to represent deeper meaning.
The stale bread was hard as a rock.
Simile
Boom, Pow, Ow
Onomatopoeia
Comparison not using "like" or "as."
Metaphor
Words that imitate how they sound.
Onomatopoeia
What is an oxymoron?
Figure of speech that combines two opposite terms.
This is taking us a million years.
Hyperbole
The green light represented all of his hopes and dreams.
Symbolism
An obvious and extreme exaggeration.
Hyperbole
Imagery
What is alliteration?
Repetition of the same repeated matching sound.
The car lights blinked in the distance.
Personification
The end of the season was bittersweet.
Oxymoron
Statement that seems contradictory or absurd on the surface.
Paradox
Hints the author gives about whats to come.
What is irony?
When the opposite of what you expect happens.
She sells sea shells down by the sea shore.
Alliteration
Less is more.
An expression with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the words.
Idiom
Reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work.
Allusion
What are literary devices commonly called?
Figurative Language
The early bird gets the worm.
Idiom
The Lottery is normally something good, but in the story, it was BAD.
Irony