This document defines and provides examples of various literary devices including imagery, simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, repetition, and parallelism. Imagery uses words that appeal to the senses to evoke mental pictures. A simile directly compares two things using "as" or "like". A metaphor indirectly compares two things. Personification attributes human qualities to non-human objects. Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds. Repetition uses the same word or phrase more than once. Parallelism uses similar grammatical structure in phrases, clauses, or words.

2. IMAGERY
•Imagery is the use of words that evoke mental pictures that appeal to the
senses.
Example: No matter how high a bird flies, it has to come down for water.
The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o'clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps.

3. SIMILE• Simile refers to the use of direct comparison of usingas or like.
Example: The tongue is like a sharp knife; it kills without drawing blood.
“Friends are like chocolate cake
You can never have too many.
Chocolate cake is like heaven -
Always amazing you with each taste or feeling.
Chocolate cake is like life with so many different pieces.
Chocolate cake is like happiness, you can never get enough of it.”

4. METAPHOR
• Metaphor refers to the use of indirect comparison.
Example: John is a real pig when he eats.
Hope
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune–without the words,
And never stops at all,
- Emily Dickinson

5. PERSONIFICATION
• Personification is the attribution of a human quality to an inanimate object.
Example: Pride invites calamity; humility reaps its harvest.
IN SHADOWS’ VEILS, AT END OF NIGHT,
SWEET MOON REMOVES HER MODEST LIGHT
AND SOFTLY, YET AGAIN, EXHALES
-AT END OF NIGHT, IN SHADOWS’ VEILS.
- ANDREA DIETRICH

6. ALLITERATION
• Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
Example: Speak softly, and be slow to begin your speech.
Rabbits running so very fast
In the field of green, green grass.
Sniffing for scents of snack time treats,
Hippity Hopping on their happy bunny feet.
When carrots and other foods are found
The rabbits prance and pounce.

7. REPETITION
• Repetition is the use of a word or phrase more than once in a passage.
Example: Sweet-melon lips, bitter-melon heart.

8. PARALLELISM
• Parallelism is the use of similar structure in the use of words, phrases, or clauses.
Example: His mouth is honey, his heart a sword.
To love is to share life together
to build special plans just for two
to work side by side
and then smile with pride
as one by one, dreams all come true.
- KRINA SHAH HA COLLEGE