This document provides examples of different literary techniques used in writing including simile, metaphor, idiom, repetition, hyperbole, and border. It includes short passages from chapters in a book that demonstrate each technique. For example, one simile compares guts flying after a snake bite to items scattered on a stoop, while a metaphor likens a wagon's music to a knife scratching inside the ear.

1. Literary Techniques By: Andrea, Victoria, Cortney, Chris, Majied

2. Simile Yarn and needles and buttons and the toady frog and the half knit sweater flew all over the stoop like your guts do after you have been bit by a hoop snake. Chapter-1 Pg: 14

3. Metaphor There was a powerful hissing music whistling from a wagon that was throwing fog and songs out of a row of pipes, sounding so hot and hard and pointy that you’d’ve thought you’d took a knife and were scratching at something deep inside your ear. Chapter-9 Pg:117

4. Idiom We fell all over ourselves and couldn’t barley stand up. Chapter-1 Pg: 16

5. Repetition But Sammy gave a long pulled out grown when the mesmerist and most of the folks in the crowed moaned out, “Sam-u-well, Sam-u-well, Sam-u-well!” Chapter-9 Pg: 132

6. Hyperbole His hair was all matted up like a birds nest and his clothes were so dirty that not even Cooter would’ve been caught dead in ‘em. Chapter-10 Pg: 138

7. Simile The way it had mashed up against me it I could feel its heart flopping around in its chest like a fish that had got throwed up on the land. Chapter-19 Pg: 261

8. Border http://www.123rf.com/photo_611641_botanical-green-border-made-of-ivy-leaves.html