INTRODUCTION

 Whomping Willow
 As dead as a doornail
 The waves roared
 Buzzing Bees
 Hum
 Literary devices refers to aspects of literature, which help express
ideas through language, which we can recognize, identify, interpret and
analyze. It is the way in which authors create meaning through
language and by which readers gain understanding of and appreciation
for their works.
 Examples of Literary Devices
 Alliteration
 Assonance
 Metaphor
 Onomatopoeia
 Personification
 Pun
 Repetition
 Rhetorical Question
 Simile
 Enjambment or run- on lines
 Personification
When human feelings, actions and
characteristics are given to inanimate objects or
something that is not human.

Examples: The lonely sea

The boat sleeps
 Simile
This is a comparison between two things.
The words “like” or “as” are always used in the
comparison.

Examples: His hands were shaking like leave

As quiet as a mouse
 Repetition
This is a device in which a word, phrase, line or
sentence which is repeated for emphasis.

Example: When I was a child I thought

The new moon was a cradle
The full moon was granny’s round face.

The new moon was a banana.

The full moon was a big cake.
 Alliteration
This is the repetition of consonant or consonant
clusters at the beginning of words.

Examples: Slip and slide

Strike straight
 Analysis of the Poem
Personification- Pregnant clouds, wind whistles

Simile-Clouds come hurrying with the wind … Like a

plague of locusts, Clothes wave like tattered
flags

Repetition- Trees bend to let it pass

Alliteration- Wind whistles, Whirling wind.

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