This document provides an introduction to common literary devices and includes examples of personification, simile, repetition, and alliteration. Specific examples from a poem are given to illustrate personification as pregnant clouds, wind whistles, clothes waving like flags. Repetition is shown as trees bending, and alliteration through phrases like whistling wind and whirling wind.

2. Literary devices refers to aspects of literature, which help express ideas through language, which we can recognize, identify, interpret and analyze. It is the way in which authors create meaning through language and by which readers gain understanding of and appreciation for their works.