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Kelsi Phillips

RHETorical Devices. Kelsi Phillips. RHETORICAL DEVICES:. Simile Metaphor Personification Imagery Sight Hearing Touch Taste Feel. SIMILE. A comparison using “like” or “as” Examples: The bear was so tall it was like a tree! The bear was as tall as a tree!

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Kelsi Phillips

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  1. RHETorical Devices Kelsi Phillips

  2. RHETORICAL DEVICES: • Simile • Metaphor • Personification • Imagery • Sight • Hearing • Touch • Taste • Feel

  3. SIMILE A comparison using “like” or “as” Examples: The bear was so tall it was like a tree! The bear was as tall as a tree! The fish was like a squirmy worm. The fish was as squirmy as a worm.

  4. METAPHOR A comparison NOT using the words like or as. Examples: My brother is a bear when he wakes up in the morning. My best friend is a monkey when she’s on the playground. The dancer was a graceful butterfly on the stage.

  5. PERSONIFICATION Giving animals or non-living objects the characteristics or qualities of a human being. Examples: Talking animals Dancing dressers Singing clocks Angry dishes

  6. IMAGERY Device used in writing to appeal to the five senses. “The pie baked in the hot oven as Grandma scooped cold ice cream from the freezer. As the timer buzzed, the aroma of apples and cinnamon filled the air. My sister and I crunched through the leaves to reach the back door. We knew that our slices would be waiting for us on the table.” Can you identify the words in the passage that are examples of imagery?

  7. Words that appeal to our sense of: SMELL: aroma sweet smoky TOUCH: rough soft smooth bumpy serrated silky rubber warm cold hot

  8. TASTE: delicious yummy sweet sour bitter HEARING: loud screeching soft clapping pounding

  9. SIGHT: beautiful flowing unclear cloudy misty shining bellowing rolling fast slow

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