8th Grade Literary Devices review

My love is like a red, red rose.

• Allusion

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net

• Allusion

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Snow speaks to the people; it’s falling above in the glooming sunlight. Its white, sparkling voice echoes as it falls through the air.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The following is an example of what type of literary device: a fire station catches on fire and burns to the ground.

• Verbal Irony

• Simile

• Situational Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Choose the correct term for the following definition: occurs when we know something that a character in a story doesn't know.

• Dramatic Irony

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Referring to something that is not human as if it were human

• Foreshadowing

• Personification

• Irony

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When the opposite of what you expect to happens occurs

• Foreshadowing

• Personification

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Compares to things using like or as

• Foreshadowing

• Simile

• Personification

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

An object or thing that represents something bigger than itself

• Foreshadowing

• Simile

• Symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Her heart was as dark as the night is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3