Literary Devices and Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• A comparison of two unlike subjects using the words "like" or "as."
• Giving human characteristics to an animal, idea, or nonliving object.
• Words that imitate sounds.
• A comparison of two unlike subjects WITHOUT using the words "like" or "as."

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison of two unlike subjects using the words "like" or "as."
• A big exaggeration in order to make a point.
• A comparison of two unlike subjects WITHOUT using the words "like" or "as."
• Language that creates mental pictures by using sensory language. 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• The use of words to imitate sounds.
• A group of words whose meaning is different from the ordinary or literal meaning.
• Language that creates mental pictures by using sensory language. 
• Giving human characteristics to an animal, idea, or nonliving object.

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

What is imagery?

• The use of words to imitate sound.
• Giving human characteristics to an animal, idea, or nonliving object.
• Language that creates mental pictures by using sensory language. 
• A big exaggeration in order to make a point.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is an onomatopoeia? 

• The use of words to imitate sound.
• A comparison of two unlike subjects using the words "like" or "as."
• Language that creates mental pictures by using sensory language. 
• A group of words whose meaning is different from the ordinary or literal meaning.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is an idiom?

• A big exaggeration in order to make a point.
• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in the same phrase.
• A group of words whose meaning is different from the ordinary or literal meaning.
• A comparison of two unlike subjects using the words "like" or "as."

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is a hyperbole?

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in the same phrase.
• A group of words whose meaning is different from the ordinary or literal meaning.
• The use of words to imitate sound.
• A big exaggeration in order to make a point.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is alliteration?

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in the same phrase.
• A big exaggeration in order to make a point.
• Giving human characteristics to an animal, idea, or nonliving object.
• The use of words to imitate sound.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the following an example of... "Make me your radio, turn me up when you feel low..."

• personification
• simile
• imagery
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is the following an example of... "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog..." 

• onomatopoeia
• personification
• metaphor
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D