This document provides examples of different literary devices including metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, puns, oxymoron, irony, and alliteration. It uses short phrases to demonstrate each device, such as describing a thin person as "as thin as a stick" for simile or saying a car crash showed "how the Mercedes Bends" for puns. The examples serve to illustrate the key characteristics and uses of these common literary techniques.