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

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

"America is a melting pot" is an example of 

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Foreshadowing
• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"She is like a butterfly" is an example of...

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Assonance
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"The tea cup clinked and clanged as I put it down on the plate" is an example of:

• simile
• onomatopoeia
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

Which word means: 'To compare two objects using the words like or as?'

• Personification 
• Metaphor
• Simile  

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which word means: 'To compare two things without using the words like or as?'

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification 
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Choose the answer that is not a hyperbole.

• My house is as big as North America.
• My brother is smaller than a seed.
• I ate a truck-full of food.
• I'm taller then you.

I can do a cartwheel! It's a piece of cake! What does the idiom "Piece of cake" mean? 

• it's easy 
• it's challenging
• a happy feeling 
• something I can do

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is a hyperbole?

• An extreme exaggeration
• A little exaggeration
• Similar sounds
• Compares two things using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A