Some literary devices involve comparing one object to another.

Example of alliteration and personification. Janie read a book by the babbling brook. Here is a list of 101 examples of alliteration in alphabetical order. Simile-as slippery as an eel as wise as an owl.

The Ipod laughed when I couldnt find the app. The child bounced the ball at the backyard barbeque. It is when you assign the qualities of a person to something that isnt human or that isnt even alive such as nature or household items.

Personification is a type of metaphor and a common literary tool. Have students who need practice in understanding alliteration work in small groups to read poems such as Betty Botter from Mother Goose or poems from Shel Silversteins books A Light in the Attic Where the Sidewalk Ends and Falling Up. Personification is used throughout literature movies and everyday vernacular.

The chair stood up straight and tall. Beckys beagle barked and bayed becoming bothersome for Billy. Personification is the assignation of human characteristics and feelings onto non-human.

For example fish fry is alliterated from Latin meaning letters the alphabet Peter Piper chose a peck full of pickled peppers. The barbarians broke through the barricade. Suffering green car needing TLC.

In the line I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend boughs bend is an example of alliteration. Alliteraon and Assonance Alliteration is when a writer repeats the consonant sounds at the begin- nings of words. Dans dog dove deep in the dam drinking dirty.