Literary Devices

Phrases that have taken on new meanings over time and are different from the individual words

Oh, my gosh! It took, like, 12 years to get from my house to the mall yesterday!

He came plodding to the inn door... his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails.

A joke that makes a play on words by using words that sound similar

A figure of speech comparing two unlike things using like or as

When words that start with the same sound are used close together in a phrase or sentence.

My teacher makes fun, fabulous, fancy Quizs

Using language to exaggerate or emphasize a point. Making something sound bigger than it is.

While I didn’t doubt he could have done the ghastly acts...it was but a rough kindness.

A word or phrase that is used to compare two people, things, animals, or places

The moonlight shadows danced across the open meadow

There is no beating about the bush, for we know quite well what it was, and have got to tell.

My name scrawled across the envelope in a hand-writing which looked like barbed-wire railing.

My mother was a delicate, rare, and beautiful flower.

Snow in NH is like a white down blanket over the land, except it is REALLY COLD!

A phrase made of two or more words that actually have opposite meanings.

Giving human qualities to an object/animal. A tool that adds interest/understanding to writing

The road veered sharply...as if, for the first time, it had reason to think where it was going.

The fireflies were stars peppering the night sky

Grandmas perfume reminded me of walking through a garden as the scent of roses filled my senses

Penny for your thought?

Using very descriptive language, sometimes figurative language, to appeal to all of your senses

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,...

We are at an inn tonight in a room with seven people and seven thousand fleas.

That new mural on the highway is pretty ugly