Literary Devices Reading Lesson

Literary Devices

A Semester Review

Poll

How comfortable are you will the literary devices we learned this semester in ELA? (Simile, Metaphor, Personification etc.)

• Not comfortable at all

• Sort of comfortable

• Comfortable

• This it is easy!

Simile

• She was a smart as a fox.

• He was like a bull

Multiple Select

Check all of the following which are similes.

• He ran as fast as a cheetah

• They were clowns

• She liked ice cream

• She climbed like a mountain goat.

Metaphor

• Don't trust him, he is a fox in hen's clothing.

• She's a doll.

Multiple Select

Check all of the following which are metaphors

• They were clowns

• She ate like a bird

• She's a snake

• Like a wolf, he cried into the night.

Personification

• The desk was stubborn and refused to move.

• The scale lies.

Open Ended

Create your own personification.

Alliteration

• He has hot hamburgers

• Snakes slither sideways

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an alliteration?

• Kids are silly and witty

• Cars are like trucks but smaller

• Apples are awesome

• Be home by midnight

Hyperbole

• She was so shiny she looked just like a star

• I am so tired I am going to sleep for a thousand years!

Open Ended

Write your own hyperbole!

Poll

How comfortable are you with the literary devices now? Do you think you could find them in a short story?

• I would need help

• Maybe

• Most of them

• No problem!