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.

2. Metaphor
He jabbed his way through the people to get to
his dad

3. Simile
He was as thin as a stick

4. Personification
The cars in the parking lot seemed dead

5. Hyberbole
Right when I threw my pizza away a billion flies
appeared

6. Puns
He drove his expensive car into a tree and found
out how the Mercedes Bends

7. Oxymoron
If you are going to be a phony, you might as
well be a real phony

8. Irony
The name of Britain’s biggest dog was Tiny

9. Alliteration
Eric’s eagle eats eggs, enjoying each episode of
eating