Liteary Devices Definitions

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"
• A comparison without using "like" or "as"
• A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.
• An extreme exaggeration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration

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CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What is a simile? 

• Comparing two things without  using  like and as
• Comparing two things in a text
• Comparing two things using  like and as
• None of the above

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Onomatopoeia is...

• An exaggerated statement
• A type of bug
• A comparison of two things using like or as
• The use of a word associated with a sound.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

An extreme exaggeration used for effect

• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

the repeated consonant sounds at the beginnings of words
(breeze blew briskly)

• alliteration
• consonance
• assonance
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is rhyme scheme?

• ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

• middle words and end words rhyme with each other

• imperfect rhyme

• imitates the natural sounds of a thing

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

The author's feelings toward the topic of their writing

• Mood

• Hyperbole

• Tone

• Imagery

Imagery is when the writer

• make us their story

• uses words that represent sounds

• makes one thing represent something else

• creates an image by appealing to the senses

When an one thing represents something else

• metaphor

• symbolism

• onomatopoeia

• imagery