Literary Devices

What literary device is being used?

"Look at my car. She's a beauty, isn't she?"

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

Which one isn't a simile?

• The children in the classroom behaved as if they were animals from a zoo!

• Everyone in the classroom was acting like animals from a zoo!

• The classroom was like a wild zoo!

• The classroom was a zoo!

What is a metaphor?

• A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as.

• A figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison.

• Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

• Is an advance sign or warning of what is to come in the future.

Which one is using alliteration?

• My dad is rad and his name is Chad.

• but, cut, mutt,smut, nut, glut

• The rabbit went outside to run, but took a nap out in the sun

• The terrible tiger tore the towel

Thinking about your childhood could be what ....

• Allusion

• Flashback

• Symbolism

• Pun

This is an example of...

• A bad joke

• A pun

• A meme

• A talking pizza

A hyperbole.....

• Uses like or as

• The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristic to something nonhuman

• Make a comparison

• an exaggerated statement

Foreshadowing.....

• Is an advance sign or warning of what is to come in the future.

• Is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

• Is something that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.

• is an interruption that writers do to insert past events, in order to provide background or context to the current events of a narrative.

"You're a regular Einstein" is an example of what?

• Symbolism

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Symbolism....

• interruptions that writers do to insert past events, in order to provide background or context to the current events of a narrative.

• An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

• A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as.

• A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.