Literary Devices Examples Flashcards
What is an example of a metaphor?
The boy was a starving pig.
What is an example of a simile?
The cat looked like a jelly bean.
What is an example of alliteration?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
What is an example of personification?
The wind crept up on me.
What is an example of a hyperbole?
This man could eat a million burgers in one night.
What is an example of onomatopoeia?
Bang!
What is an example of imagery?
The cake smelled sweet and tasted like ice cream.
What is an example of parallel structure?
“Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump…” (From the song “Jump”)
What is an example of inversion?
The book must I read.
What is an example of mood?
You could almost hear his tears plopping against the ground as he let them go!
What is an example of a flashback?
I remember I would hop into my father’s lap and he would tell me a story every night before bed. That is, before he “disappeared”…
What is an example of irony?
It was made of three layers of solid concrete…. But then, it cracked and everything poured through.
What is an example of an allusion?
… like president Abraham Lincoln.
What is an example of interior monologue?
Then he thought, “I wish I could be doing that!”
What is an example of a plot?
My father… he’s gone!
