Figurative and Poetic devices
Hyperbole Your suitcase weighs a ton!
Half Rhyme Hold/Bald
Irony The name of Britain’s biggest dog was “Tiny”.
Personification To give human or personal qualities to inanimate things or ideas
Simile My love is like a red, red rose.
Allusion Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.
Personification The old mansion frowned down at us from the top of the hill
Simile My brain is like a sponge.
assonance I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless.
Simile The moonless night was as dark as black velvet.
Personification I remember his sweaty brow seemed to weep at my every move.
Allusion A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.
Onomatopoeia “Hissed”
Alliteration Sara’s seven sisters slept soundly.
Consonance The zoo was amazing especially the lizards and chimpanzees.
Onomatopoeia “crackle”
Metaphor My heart’s a stereo.
Half rhyme Shape/keep
Hyperbole Her head was so full of ideas that it was ready to burst wide open.
Metaphor He was a library of information about baseball.
Anaphora “We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend out island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.”
Simile Creating a strong comparison between two things using like or as.
hyperbole The suspense is killing me.
Alliteration Seven steaks sizzled.
Epistrophe “….that a government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Assonance He saw the cost and hauled off.
Alliteration The grass grew green in the graveyard.
Consonance Eric liked the black book.
Rhyme I left my punch card in the lunch yard.
Allusion She had a Cinderella wedding.
Personification The hours crawled by like years.
Alliteration Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Idiom It is raining cats and dogs.
Rhyme Wall/hall
Epistrophe “I’m a Pepper, he’s a Pepper, she’s a Pepper, we’re a Pepper. Wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper, too? Dr. Pepper.”
Hyperbole To make a point by exaggerating.
Alliteration Using several words near each other that start with the same sound.
Anaphora “My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration.”