Literary Devices ELA (WORK IN PROGRESS)

What is a Allusion?

• A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural significance

• gives the audience hints or signs about the future

• the repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds within words, phrases, or sentences

• words that begin with the same sound are placed close together

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is a Alliteration

• words that begin with the same sound are placed close together

• is a short statement of a general truth, insight, or good advice

• skipping one or more conjunctions

• which an author or speaker purposely and obviously exaggerates to an extreme

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a Assonance?

• is a person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story

• is a literary term where you use “like” or “as” to compare two different things and show a common quality between them

• is the repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds within words, phrases, or sentences

• is the usage of a word in a new grammatical form

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a Foreshadowing?

• is a device that moves an audience from the present moment in a chronological narrative to a scene in the past

• gives the audience hints or signs about the future

• is a brief introductory piece in a book that is usually written by someone other than then author

• is a short scene in which the action jumps ahead to the future of the narrative

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is a Hyperbole?

• is a figure of speech in which an author or speaker purposely and obviously exaggerates to an extreme

• is a figure of speech in which the typical, natural order of words is changed as certain words are moved out of order

• is a phrase that conveys a figurative meaning different from the words used

• language used by poets, novelists and other writers to create images in the mind of the reader

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is an Analogy?

• a literary technique in which two unrelated objects are compared for their shared qualities

• is when a certain word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of clauses or sentences that follow each other

• is the opposite of the protagonist, or main character

• is the overall mood of a story or poem

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CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a Irony?

• is when there are two contradicting meanings of the same situation, event, image, sentence, phrase, or story

• is the process of drawing a conclusion from supporting evidence

• It’s what happens when an author, deliberately or accidentally, puts historical events, fashions, technology, etc., in the wrong place

• It’s what happens when an author, deliberately or accidentally, puts historical events, fashions, technology, etc., in the wrong place.

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CCSS.L.8.5A

What is a Metaphor?

• is a common figure of speech that makes a comparison by directly relating one thing to another unrelated thing

• is a speech given by a single character in a story

• is a genre of literature whose stories focus on a puzzling crime, situation, or circumstance that needs to be solved

• A myth is a classic or legendary story that usually focuses on a particular hero or event

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CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What is a Onomatopoeia?

• words that sound like what they describe

• is a figure of speech that puts together opposite elements

• is a phrase that conveys a figurative meaning different from the words used

• the repeating of a word or phrase

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is a Repetition?

• the repeating of a word or phrase

• is the ancient art of persuasion

• words that begin with the same sound are placed close together

• the repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds within words, phrases, or sentences

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4