Vocabulary #8 Literary Devices

Front

Warning or hint of a future event.

Back

foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Front

Figure of speech comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'

Back

simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

Figure of speech comparing two things, one IS the other

Back

metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

A scene set earlier than the main story

Back

flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Front

General atmosphere evoked in the reader.

Back

mood

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Front

Use of symbols/objects to represent bigger ideas

Back

symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Front

Qualities of a person given to an object

Back

personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Front

Same consonant at the start of closely connected words

Back

alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Formation of a word from a sound

Back

onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Front

Exaggerated statement not meant literally

Back

hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A