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.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

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

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Assonance
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Click the button. "Click" is an example of...

• Repetition
• Satire
• Onomatopoeia
• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.K.5

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.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

"The scrumptious desserts were calling out my name" is an example of...

• simile
• foreshadowing
• personification
• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

After playing football on the cold January day, his fingers were icicles.

• simile
• metaphor
• verb
• hot chocolate

My bed flipped and went BAM!!!

• onomotopeia
• simile
• idiom
• hyberpole

A word that mimics the sound of the object or action it refers to.

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A technique that repeats the first sound in several words.

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4