Literary/Poetic Devices

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

• personification
• alliteration
• simile
• literaryoxymoron

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

• personification
• cliche
• metaphor
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

• simlie
• paradox
• metaphor
• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

• simile
• metaphor
• idiom
• analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Fred ate five French fries on Friday.

• simile
• alliteration
• hyperbole
• cliche

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

POW!
Bang!
Buzzzzzz....

• alliteration
• personification
• Onomatopoeia
• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

The way the reader feels when reading a story.

• tone
• theme
• setting
• mood

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RL.7.3

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

• allegory
• allusion
• analogy
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

a word that represents a sound.

• onomatopoeia
• oxymoron
• personification
• euphemism 

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

You break a date with your girlfriend so you can go to the ball game with the guys. When you go to the concession stand, you run into your girl, who is with another guy.

• Personification
• Imagery
• Foreshadowing
• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.3