Literary Devices Definitions

Front

Literary device referencing a known person or story?

Back

Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Front

Literary device that gives human traits to non-human things.

Back

Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Front

Literary device that compares by placing things side-by-side?

Back

Juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Front

Literary device using repetition at the beginnings of phrases/sentences?

Back

Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Literary device for author's word choice?

Back

Diction

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Front

Literary device that evokes feelings from a word?

Back

Connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Front

Literary device: extreme exaggeration?

Back

Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Front

Literary device where one idea spans multiple lines of poetry.

Back

Enjambment

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Front

Literary device that mirrors syntax with slight word changes.

Back

Parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Comparison of unlike 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