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Comparing two objects using like or as.
Simile
The dog is "doing his business" on the lawn.
This is a euphemism
Using extreme exaggeration.
Hyperbole
What literary device uses your 5 senses? Sight, sound, taste, touch, smell.
Imagery
When I got more homework I said, "gee I'm so excited" (but I wasn't happy about it at all).
Irony. Specifically verbal.
Go slow over the road
Assonance. Repetition of "O" sound
Giving human qualities to an object or animal
Personification
Boom, splat, buzz, kachoo!
Onomatopoeia
The boy's stomach was a bottomless pit.
Metaphor
The government robot chased them down a dark hallway. (What type(s) of conflict?) Can you name at least two?
Person VS Society
Person VS Technology
Person VS Environment
Writing a phrase without the use of conjunctions.
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
It was raining so much I thought I would drown.
Hyperbole
Canada took home the gold medal.
Synecdoche
The zoo was amazing, especially the lizards and chimpanzees.
Consonance. Repetition of "Z" sound.
A figure of speech that does not literally mean what it says. For example, "the cat is out of the bag".
Idiom
third person narration but only reports the behaviour of characters. No thoughts or feelings are revealed.
Objective point of view (a type of third person POV).
What literary devices can you spot here?
“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”
Synecdoche, personification, possibly imagery
“If there be cords, or knives or Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams, I’ll not endure it.”
Polysyndeton