5th and 6th grade literary devices

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What is a metaphor?

Back

A comparison without using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is a simile?

Back

A comparison using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is personification?

Back

Giving human characteristics to non-human things.

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What is alliteration?

Back

The same beginning sound repeated in a series of words.

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What is onomatopoeia?

Back

A word that imitates its meaning, often a sound.

Front

What does 'The assignment was a breeze!' mean?

Back

It means the assignment was very easy.

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Which sense is described in 'The tiny red ant climbed up the broken limb'?

Back

Sight.

Front

What is hyperbole?

Back

An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis.

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What is imagery in literature?

Back

Descriptive language that appeals to the senses.

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What is a theme in literature?

Back

The main idea or underlying message of a story.