Definitions of Literary devices. (Plus examples/found in the grinch.)

b Definitions
Onomatopoeia
Definition: Sound which can be represented with words

Metaphor
Definition: A direct comparison

Simile

Definition: An comparison using the words like and as

Rhyme
Definition: Various words that end up in similar sounds and vowels

Personification
Definition: Giving real life qualities and actions to an object
Repetition
Definition: When the same word is used more than twice

Hyperbole
Definition: An exaggeration

Alliteration
Definition: A repetition of a consonant letter at the beginning of various words
Assonance- Ex: He saw a ball far away

Onomatopeia- Pop
“oooo”! Sweet!
Examples and Grinch findings
Metaphor- you ARE my sunshine

Simile- quiet AS a mouse
Inside a snowflake like the one on your sleeve.

Rhyme- hall, ball, fall
Whole movie

Personification- the lamp SAT on the table.
 Is your refigerator running? Well, then you better go catch it!

Repetition- baby baby baby..ooo
maybe maybe just maybe.

Hyperbole- he’s the FASTEST runner EVER
His heart was twice as small

Alliteration- Peter PiPer Picked a Peck of Pickled PePPers
Perfect prissy patter

Assonance- he sAw A bAll fAr Away

Imagery- appeal to 5 senses to create a picture in readers mind.
Personal journal

Allegory: poem that has a 2nd deeper meaning
-Tortoise the hare represents kinds of people
*Extended*
Understatement: Mr Grinch, you’re looking a little green today.
(he is very green!!)
Paradox: war is Peace • George Orwell
two seemingly opposite ideas working together

Irony: Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the war room.
when the intended meaning differs from the meaning the words appear to express.

Synecdoche: All hands on deck
when a part represents a whole (hands=sailors)

Apostrophe: twinkle twinkle little star, How I wonder what you are…
Addresing something non-human or dead as human or alive.

Allusion: “Don’t be such a Grinch”
Make reference to something in another literary work.