LITERARY TECHNIQUES
BY WILLIAM
IMAGERY EXAMPLES
- Winter evening settles down.
- A lonely cab horse steams and stamps.
- And now a gusty shower wraps.
ONAMATOPEOIA EXAMPLES
- Splash.
- Drip.
- Drop.
SIMILE EXAMPLES
- As big as an elephant.
- As brave as a lion.
- As clear as crystal.
ALITERATION EXAMPLES
- Come and clean your cobourd.
- Shut the shutter before it makes you shudder.
- Gary gathered the garbage.
HYBERBOLE EXAMPLES
- I have a tonne of chores to do.
- I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
- she is as thin as a toothpick.
METAPHOR EXAMPLES
- The snow is a white blanket.
- America is a melting pot.
- Life is a rollercoaster.
PERSONIFACATION EXAMPLES
- the lightning danced across the sky
- traffic slowed to a crawl
- the wind holwed in the night