Review of Literary Devices

1. Review of Literary Devices • Personification: is giving human qualities to animals or objects. The daffodils nodded their yellow heads.

2. Review of Literary Devices • Simile - figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though. She floated in like a cloud.

3. Review of Literary Devices • Metaphor: A comparison in which one thing is said to be another. The cat's eyes were jewels, gleaming in the darkness.

4. Review of Literary Devices • Hyperbole - a figure of speech involving exaggeration. I am so hungery I could eat a cow.

5. Review of Literary Devices • Alliteration - the repetition of the initial consonant. There should be at least two repetitions in a row. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

6. Review of Literary Devices • Onomatopoeia - the use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. The burning wood crackled and hissed.

7. Review of Literary Terms • Oxymoron - putting two contradictory words together. bittersweet, jumbo shrimp, and act naturally

8. Review of Literary Terms • Allegory - a symbolic representation The blindfolded figure with scales is an allegory of justice.