Identifying Literary Devices

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

• Allusion

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

My love is like a red, red rose.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

In the film and book Charlotte’s Web, Charlotte explains to Wilbur that all living things eventually die. Charlotte then has to spin a web to save Wilbur’s life. In the process of spinning her web, Charlotte expends all her energy and dies.

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Foreshadowing

• Personification

Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! Joe’s boots broke the forest’s silence. A full moon peeked out from behind two clouds. Tree shadows illuminated the snow drifts in its shimmering light. Joe shivered as a cold gust of wind blew through his jacket.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

“But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.”
  -William Sharp

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

An emerald is as green as grass,
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Personification
• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe.
   - John Milton

• Simile
• Foreshadowing
• Personification
• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of figurative language is used?

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

• Allusion

• Simile

• Personifcation

• Foreshadowing

When the woman kept changing the subject I knew she had something to hide.  I wasn’t surprised when she turned out to be guilty.

• Foreshadowing
• Personfication
• Simile
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5