This document provides an introduction to common literary devices and includes examples of personification, simile, repetition, and alliteration. Specific examples from a poem are given to illustrate personification as pregnant clouds, wind whistles, clothes waving like flags. Repetition is shown as trees bending, and alliteration through phrases like whistling wind and whirling wind.

1. INTRODUCTION Whomping Willow As dead as a doornail The waves roared Buzzing Bees Hum

2. Literary devices refers to aspects of literature, which help express ideas through language, which we can recognize, identify, interpret and analyze. It is the way in which authors create meaning through language and by which readers gain understanding of and appreciation for their works.

3. Examples of Literary Devices Alliteration Assonance Metaphor Onomatopoeia Personification Pun Repetition Rhetorical Question Simile Enjambment or run- on lines

4. Personification When human feelings, actions and characteristics are given to inanimate objects or something that is not human. Examples: The lonely sea The boat sleeps

5. Simile This is a comparison between two things. The words “like” or “as” are always used in the comparison. Examples: His hands were shaking like leave As quiet as a mouse

6. Repetition This is a device in which a word, phrase, line or sentence which is repeated for emphasis. Example: When I was a child I thought The new moon was a cradle The full moon was granny’s round face. The new moon was a banana. The full moon was a big cake.

7. Alliteration This is the repetition of consonant or consonant clusters at the beginning of words. Examples: Sl ip and sl ide St rike st raight

9. Personification- Pregnant clouds, wind whistles Simile-Clouds come hurrying with the wind … Like a plague of locusts, Clothes wave like tattered flags Repetition- Trees bend to let it pass Alliteration- Wind whistles, Whirling wind. Analysis of the Poem

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