Literary Devices

My love is like a red, red rose.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Snow speaks to the people; it’s falling above in the glooming sunlight. Its white, sparkling voice echoes as it falls through the air.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

The baby was as snug as a bug in a rug.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

In Lemony Snicket, most of the inhabitants of the island on which the Baudelaires find themselves in The End are characters from The Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! Joe’s boots broke the forest’s silence. A full moon peeked out from behind two clouds. Tree shadows illuminated the snow drifts in its shimmering light. Joe shivered as a cold gust of wind blew through his jacket.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Imagery
• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

“But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.”
  -William Sharp

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

An emerald is as green as grass,
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Personification
• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

This quiz is a piece of cake.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe.
  - John Milton

• Simile
• Foreshadowing
• Personification
• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3