My favorite literary hack on that was Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, where he plays on your assumption that an intelligence that is human-like is actually human-shaped.
It's a decent chunk of the book (told from their perspective!) before he starts sprinkling in things that make you realize they aren't actually human-shaped (or thinking) at all.
It's a decent chunk of the book (told from their perspective!) before he starts sprinkling in things that make you realize they aren't actually human-shaped (or thinking) at all.