Literary Devices

Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you.

• Inversion

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

She is as innocent as an angel

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Inversion

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Battle-Cry

• Kenning

• Inversion

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The headphone explodes, || breaking the mold

• Caesura

• Kenning

• Alliteration

• Inversion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Rhyming iambic pentameters often forming a distinct rhetorical as well as metrical unit.

• Heroic Couplet

• Rap

• Ballad

• Face melting, ear shattering, head banging, guitar shredding solo

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

She is the wind beneath my wings

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Iambic Pentameter

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4