The document defines and provides examples of several literary devices: personification, simile, hyperbole, and idioms. Personification involves attributing human qualities to non-human things. Similes make comparisons between two unlike things using "like" or "as". Hyperboles exaggerate for emphasis. Idioms use words figuratively rather than literally. Examples are given to illustrate the meaning and use of each device.

1. Personification Definitions Personification is the technique giving humans qualities to an object, animal, and idea.

2. Personification Examples The brook laughed merrily on his way down the mountain.

3. Personification Explanations Laughing is a human quality. A brook can’t really laugh.

4. Personification Creative Example The trees danced as the wind went through them.

5. Personification Creative Example Explanation Shrieked is a human quality. Trees can’t really shriek.

6. Simile Definitions A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

7. Simile Examples Rico’s face turned as white as snow

8. Simile Explanations The two things being compared are Rico’s face and snow

9. Simile Creative Example Omarion is as cute as Chris Brown

10. Simile Creative Example Explanation Omarion is being compared to Chris Brown

11. Hyperbole Definitions A hyperbole is an exaggeration on emphasis.

12. Hyperbole Examples She leaped as high as the clouds when she heard the good news.

13. Hyperbole Explanations That is a hyperbole because it is an exaggeration. It really means she jumped really high when she heard the good news

14. Hyperbole Creative Example The wind was so strong it blew us to Venus and back.

15. Hyperbole Creative Example Explanation This is a hyperbole because it is also an exaggeration. It really means the wind was really strong.

16. Idioms Definitions A word that means something else

17. Idioms Examples It is raining cats and dogs

18. Idioms Explanations It is raining hard

19. Idioms Creative Example I have to walk 1,000 miles to school

20. Idioms Creative Example Explanation I have to walk very far to get to school