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Get into groups of 3 or 4 students and as a group, select three of the literary
devices below that you feel that you know best and for each device come up
with three different sentences that provide an example of that device.
For example, if you wanted to do hyperbole, you could write:
Upon seeing the horror movie, the boys eyes were the size of dinner
plates.
Alliteration
Allusion
Analogy
Anthropomorphism
Antithesis
Archetype
Assonance
Dramatic Irony
Consonance
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Paradox
Personification
Satire
Simile
Situational Irony
Symbolism
Understatement
Verbal Irony