Literary Devices Year 8

The use of exaggeration for effect or emphasis. ‘She is going to drive me up the wall.’

The comparison of two things using the words “like” or “as.” For example, ‘He is as blind as a bat.’ ‘They took to it like a moth to a flame

To use figurative language to express or emphasise an idea. It is the opposite of a literal expression. For example an idiom, metaphor, simile or personification for example, ‘She’s over the hill.’

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