Literary Devices

What is personification?

• a word that mimics a sound
• repetition of consonant sounds
• using symbols to represent something
• Giving human-like traits to non-living objects

What is alliteration?

• a word that mimics a sound
• repetition of consonant sounds
• using symbols to represent something
• Giving human-like traits to non-living objects

What is onomatopoeia?

• a word that mimics a sound
• repetition of consonant sounds
• using symbols to represent something
• Giving human-like traits to non-living objects

What is metaphor?

• A comparison of two things using like or as
• A comparison of three things using like or as
• A comparison of two things using is or was
• Giving non-living things human-like characteristics

What is symbolism?

• a word that mimics a sound
• repetition of consonant sounds
• using symbols to represent something
• Giving human-like traits to non-living objects

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as
• Comparing two things in a text
• Using symbols to represent something
• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is apostrophe in a poem?

• used to address someone or something that is not there
• the writer of the poem
• a figure of speech that is not literal
• the antonym of a word

struggle between opposing forces
Ex. Lennie vs. Curley; Lennie vs. George; Candy vs. himself; Ranch men vs. society

• fight
• feud
• conflict
• argument

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

time and place the story takes place
Ex. Salinas River, 1930s; "A few miles south of Soledad."

• setting
• plot
• imagery
• exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.W.9-10.3D

adding human characteristics to non-living objects
Ex. "the afternoon sun sliced through the cracks of barn walls"

• hyperbole
• symbolism
• imagery
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4