Literary Devices
A good cook could cook as many cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.
Alliteration
The Cat in the Hat
Anthropomorphism
Cookies, Conway, Chase
Alliteration
The bridge collapsed creating a tremendous boom.
Onomatopoeia
Excited the children were when Santa entered the room
Anastrophe
The snow is a white blanket
Metaphor
He's running faster than the wind.
Hyperbole
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
Chiasmus
I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
Hyperbole
As cute as a kitten
Simile
His smile is like kryptonite to me
Allusion
As cool as a cucumber
Simile
Aesop's Fables
Allegory
Jane's days became a blur of meaningless events – wake up, brush teeth, make the coffee, get the mail, fix dinner, watch TV. It was hard to keep depression at bay.
Polysyndeton
The Lover
Archetype