Literary Devices Examples

"The sun smiled down on everyone" is an example of...

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When a part of the book hints at something that will happen in the future, it is...

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

• Irony

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

"This promise between us is a delicate flower" is an example of...

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When you stop the main action of a story to tell something in the past is known as...

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

"Peter, please pick up your prize!" is an example of...

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"It is hotter than the surface of the sun in this room!" is an example of...

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"My brother eats like a pig; he is so messy" This is an example of...

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4