Group 1
George just jumped on the jello jaguar
Alliteration
Purr, roar, baa, moo
Onomatopoeia
Mr. E is the best teacher in the entire world
Hyperbole
I was sweating buckets while working outside today.
Hyperbole
This place is a zoo
Metaphor
An occurrence in which a character remembers an earlier event that happened before the current point of the story
Flashback
This device reflects a word's literal, dictionary definition
Denotation
“You’re out of order! You’re out of order! The whole trial is out of order! They’re out of order!”
Repitition
Time to kill two birds with one stone
Idiom
A fire station burning down
Irony
That costs an arm and a leg
Idiom
Sunny – Suggests warmth, brightness, and an inviting optimism.
Connotation
When I shook his hands, they were as cold as ice
Simile
Serene – Suggests a calm, peaceful state that inspires relaxation.
Connotation
A detective is investigating an abandoned warehouse for clues. His sidekick, worried, says, "I have a bad feeling about this."
Foreshadowing
You have clearly misunderstood what I just said
Oxymoron
He gets one three point shot in gym class and now he thinks that he’s Steph Curry.
Allusion
The emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story
Mood
Fear gripped the patient waiting for a diagnosis
Personification
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime
Proverb
The road to success is always under construction
Pun
My Archilles' heel is that I get easily distracted when I do my homework
Allusion
Not following advice you gave to someone else
Irony
The central, deeper meaning of a written work
Theme
The writer’s attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work