Literary Devices

• Simile

  comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"
• Metaphor

  a figure of speech that describes an object or action that isn't literal
• Idiom

  expression whose meaning is different from the literal
• Alliteration

  repetition of starting sound
• Hyperbole

  deliberate and extreme exaggeration
• Onomatopoeia

  words that imitate the sound of something
• Personification

  giving human qualities to a non-human object
• Oxymoron

  two words that are opposite in meaning
• Connotation

  feeling or idea that the word has
• Denotation


  a word's literal meaning