1. Speak Final Analysis: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, & Hyperbole
Simile: a direct comparison between two essentially unlike things, introduced by the words “like” or “as”
Examples:
Jose runs like the wind.
She is as mean as a witch.
Marie was as pale as a ghost.

2. Speak Final Analysis Simile, Metaphor, Personification, & Hyperbole
Metaphor – a direct comparison between two dissimilar/unlike things without using “like” or “as”
Examples:
My life is an open book
Michael is a fox.
The vacation was a heartbeat in time.

3. Speak Final Analysis Simile, Metaphor, Personification, & Hyperbole
Personification – giving human qualities/traits to an inanimate object
Examples:
Lightning danced across the sky.
The wind howled in the night.
Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name.
The avalanche devoured anything standing in its way.

4. Speak Final Analysis Simile, Metaphor, Personification, & Hyperbole
Hyperbole – the use of over exaggeration for emphasis or effect.
Examples:
I could sleep for a year
This book weighs a ton.
I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

5. Speak Final Analysis: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, & Hyperbole
How does Laurie Halse Anderson use these
literary devices throughout Speak?
Within your group, go back through your
assigned quarter in Speak & find examples
of each device.
Pull out specific quotes from the novel
Identify the device being used (simile, metaphor, personification, or hyperbole) shown.
State the effect is Anderson striving for by using the device at that particular point in the novel.