Literary Device Review for Final

When an author gives an inanimate object human or living characteristics. For example: the trees danced in the wind.

• personification
• alliteration
• simile
• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

An over-exaggeration. For example: I was standing in line forever.

• personification
• cliche
• metaphor
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as. 
He was a bear in the the goal.

• simlie
• paradox
• metaphor
• allusion

Mark is as fast as a cheetah. This is an example of the following:

• simile
• metaphor
• idiom
• analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When the opposite of what you expect happens. 
For example: A mechanic whose car is falling apart

• irony
• idiom
• alliteration
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Fred ate five French fries on Friday.

• simile
• alliteration
• hyperbole
• cliche

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A reference to a well-known person, place, event or work (book, song or movie) that appears in another work

• allegory
• allusion
• analogy
• alliteration

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The way the reader feels when reading a story.

• tone
• theme
• setting
• mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

POW!
Bang!
Buzzzzzz....

• alliteration
• personification
• Onomatopoeia
• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

During his halftime speech, the coach told his players to give it 110%. The over-used saying is an example of:

• cliche
• hyperbole
• idiom
• metaphor