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.”