The ___________ _____________ as I

Her _________ are _____________

Your _______ is as _______ as an
_________.
I’m __________ I could ________
__________.
There are ________ __________ in our
house.
 a poet device that uses word
out of their literal meaning or
out of their ordinary use to
achieve a special effect.
She ran like the wind.
Nica is as thin as a
stick.
“O my Luve’s like a red, red
rose
That’s newly sprung in
June,
O my Luve’s like the
melodie
A Red, Red Rose
by Robert Burns
That’s sweetly played in
His words are pearl of
wisdom.
My brother is the black
sheep of the family.
“Her mouth was a fountain of
delight.
And when he possessed her,
they seemed to swoon
together at the very
borderland
The Storm of life’s mystery.”
by Kate
This is a figure of
speech which gives
human attributes to a
thing, an idea or an
animal.
 The fire swallowed the
entire house.
 The flowers were
blooming, and the bees
kissed them every now
and then.
.
 “Have you got a brook in your
little heart,
Where bashful flowers blow,
And blushing birds go down to
drink,
AndYoushadows
->”Have Got tremble so?”
a Brook in Your
Little Heart” by
Emily Elizabeth
It is a figure of
speech that involves
an exaggeration of
ideas for the sake of
emphasis.
The boy was dying to get
a new school bag.
The old man was older
than the Himalayas.
“I had to wait in the
station for ten days–
an eternity.”
”The heart of
Darkness” by
Joseph Conrad
It is a stylistic device
in which a number of
words, having the
same first consonant
sound, occur close
A big bully beats a baby
boy.
A ig ully eats a aby
oy.
But a better butter
makes a batter better.
 ut a etter utter
makes a atter etter.
 “From forth the fatal
loins of these two foes;
A pair of star-cross’d
lovers take their lives.”
“Romeo and
Juliet by William
Shakespeare”
It is a literary device
in which a part of
something represents
the whole, or it may
use a whole to
It is a literary device
in which a part of
something represents
the whole, or it may
use a whole to
represent a part.
“Tell that its sculptor well
those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped
on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked
them.
”Ozymandias
” by Percy
Shelly
It replaces the name
of a thing with the
name of something
else with which it is
closely associated.
 word
s
The pen is mightier
militar
than swords.
y
Let’s swear loyalty to
the crown.
king
“I’m might glad Georgia
waited till after
Christmas before it
secedes or it would have
ruined the Christmas
parties.
 “Gone with the
Wind” by
Margaret Mitchell
It sometimes
represented by an
exclamation such as “Oh!”
A writer or speaker using
apostrophe speaks directly
to someone who is not
present or is dead, or