Terms (1)
Comparing two objects using like or as.
Simile
Comparing two objects without using like or as
Metaphor
The stale bread was as hard as a rock.
Simile
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alliteration
Love conquers all
Cliche
Using extreme exaggeration.
Hyperbole
Words that imitate the sounds they make
The car lights blinked in the distance.
Personification
Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Extended Metaphor AND simile
Seriously Funny
Oxymoron
Giving human qualities to an object or animal
Personification
Using a play on words. (Someone attempting to be funny, but it usually is not.)
Pun
Boom, splat, buzz, kachoo!
Onomatopoeia
The boy's stomach was a bottomless pit.
Metaphor
A soldier who wants to be declared insane to avoid combat is deemed not insane for that very reason and will therefore not be declared insane.
The repetition of a beginning consonant sound in words that are close together
Alliteration
Word choice
Diction
It was so cold outside, I thought I would die.
Hyperbole
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
Paradox
An apple falls on Isaac Newtons head, he discovers gravity (A story really about scientific discovery occurring in common places)
Allegory
The term for all of the devices a writer uses to give the reader a better description and understanding of what is happening in the story or poem. We are studying this RIGHT NOW!
Literary devices and figurative language
To refer to something or someone who is not present as if they were.
Apostrophe
The early bird get the worm.
Euphemism
Living dead
Oxymoron
Go slow over the road
Assonance