Literary Devices

I'm not very good at basketball, but I'll give it a shot.

• Simile

• Metaphore

• Allusion

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The wind was blowing so hard, the sun was scared to come out.

• metaphor

• personification

• symbolism

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

"Clean up your room! It's a pig pen!"

• metaphor

• simile

• allusion

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The boy believed black birds bite.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

My mother's hair is as soft as a cloud.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I can do a cartwheel! It's a piece of cake!

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I could hear the popping and crackling as mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

• Euphemism

• Cliche

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

I need to look for a new job because I was let go today :(

• Cliche

• Metaphor

• Euphemism

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

The golden yellow sunlight filtered down through the pale new leaves on the oak trees, coming to rest on Jessica's brown toes that were splayed in the red Georgia mud.

• Idiom

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

You should never judge a book by its cover!

• Oxymoron

• Forshadowing

• Pun

• Cliche

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A