LITERARY DEVICES

HYPERBOLE

HYBERPOLE

• An obvious and intentional exaggeration.

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

• "People moved slowly then. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County."
• From "To Kill a Mockingbird", by Harper Lee.

SIMILE

SIMILE

• Comparing two or more things using like or as.

Daffodils

• “I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills.”
• -From "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", or "Daffodils", by William Wordsworth.

PERSONIFICATION

PERSONIFICATION

• Giving inanimate objects human characteristics.

WILD GEESE

• "Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination."
• -From "Wild Geese", by Mary Oliver.