Literary Devices in Lemon Brown

“His father’s words, like the distant thunder that now echoed through the streets of Harlem, still rumbled softly in his ears” contains:

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

“Gusts of wind made bits of paper dance between the parked cars” contains:

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

“He reached the house just as another flash of lightning changed the night to day for an instant, then returned the graffiti-scarred building to the grim shadows” contains:

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

“Don’t try nothin’ ‘cause I got a razor here sharp enough to cut a week into nine days!” contains:

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“The voice was high and brittle, like dry twigs being broken…” contains:

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

“His black, heavily wrinkled face was surrounded by a halo of crunkly white hair and whiskers…” contains:

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“Hard times always after a poor man. One day I got tired, sat down to rest a spell, and felt a tap on my shoulder. Hard times caught up with me” contains:

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

“They used to say I sung the blues so sweet that if I sang at a funeral, the dead would commence to rocking with the beat” contains:

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

“When you get as old as me, all you say when something hurts is ‘Howdy Mr. Pain, sees you back again'” contains:

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is the author's purpose of passage #1? Select all of the narrative elements which are being revealed:

• Setting

• Characterization

• Conflict

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5