Literary Devices

N/A

Steve Jobs is to Apple as Obama is to America - leaders

Analogy

Food is to humans as gasoline is to cars - fuel

Analogy

A finger is to a hand as a branch is to a tree - part

Analogy

Shopping is to women as playing sports is for men - hobby

Analogy

Events are to History as numbers are to Mathematics - tool

Analogy

Analogy

Comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from.it

Aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar

Analogy

More extensive and elaborate tha either a simile or metaphor

Metaphors and similes

\______ are tools to draw analogy

Katie, come and clean your closet.

Alliteration

Put your pen away and play the piano.

Alliteration

Bobby read a book by the babbling brook.

Alliteration

Gary gathered gobs of gooey garbage.

Alliteration

Lazy lizards lay like lumps.

Alliteration

Dan dropped a dozen dipped donuts.

Alliteration

Zany zebras zigzag through the zoo.

Alliteration

The wild winds whisk to the west.

Alliteration

She sells seashells by the seashore.

Alliteration

Change the channel, Charlie.

Alliteration

Alliteration

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

Allusion

\> an indirect and usually brief reference to a person, place, or event

Allusion Categories

Historical, Biblical, Mythological, Literary

Pandora's Box - box containing all the evils of the world

Alllusion

Mona Lisa - an almost expressionless smile

Allusion

Romeo and Juliet - lovers who aren't supposed to be together because
others' objections

\> Allusion

Achilles' Heel - one's weak point

Allusion

Venus - roman goddess associated with love, beauty and fertility

Allusion

Helen of Troy - most beautiful woman in the world

Allusion

Hercules/Herculean efforts - strongest man on earth

Allusion

Apollo - handsome man

Allusion

Midas touch - a person who is always lucky

Allusion

Hot as Hades - sweltering hot

Allusion

Food of the gods - unbelievably delicious delicacies

Allusion

The face that launched a thousand ships - any person causing a disaster
or war

Allusion

A judgement of Paris - any difficult decision

Allusion

Leave no stone un-turned -search every minute detail

Allusion

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts - be wary of anyone offering something;
they may have an ulterior motive

Allusion

As strong as an ox

Simile

As light as a feather

Simile

As busy as a bee

Simile

As quiet as a mouse

Simile

As quick as flash

Simile

As dry as a bone

Simile

As white as a sheet

Simile

As red as a beet

Simile

As brown as a berry

Simile

As black as night

Simile

As sick as a parrot

Simile

As sick as a dog

Simile

As deaf as a post

Simile

As blind as a bat

Simile

As thin as a rail

Simile

As mad as a hatter

Simile

Simile

A comparison of two things using like or as

Metaphor

A comparison of two unlike things without using the word like or as.

The snow is a white blanket.

Metaphor

The classroom was a zoo.

Metaphor

My teacher is a dragon.

Metaphor

He is a night owl

Metaphor

You are my sunshine!

Metaphor

You are an angel.

Metaphor

To raise a white flag

Idiom

Yellow bellied

Idiom

Golden opporunity

Idiom

Chicken out

Idiom

with flying colors

Idiom

Chasing rainbow

Idiom

Once a blue moon

Idiom

A grey area

Idiom

When pigs fly

Idiom

to tell a white lie

Idiom

green thumb

Idiom

monkey see monkey do

Idiom

born with a silver spoon

Idiom

tickled pink

Idiom

the bees knees

Idiom

look through rose colored glasses

Idiom

blind as a bat

Idiom

Break the ice

Idiom

Butter someone up

Idiom

Cat got your tongue

Idiom

Barking up the wrong tree

Idiom

Turn a blind eye

Idiom

Caught red-handed

Idiom

Go the whole nine yards

Idiom

Let one\`s hair down

Idiom

Idiom

A phrase commonly used in everyday language that doesn't make
sense in another language.

Onomatopoeia...pronounced "ON-a-MOT-o-PEE-ya"

When a word is used
to imitate a sound. Examples include "slam!" "buzz!" and "cock-a-doodle-doo!"

squeek

Onomatopoeia

crack

Onomatopoeia

plop

Onomatopoeia

achoo

Onomatopoeia

clang

Onomatopoeia

click

Onomatopoeia

ssssss

Onomatopoeia

pong

Onomatopoeia

clack

Onomatopoeia

ding dong

Onomatopoeia

slam

Onomatopoeia

clatter

Onomatopoeia