Literary Devices

What is alliteration?

• Using symbols to represent something

• Using like or as to compare two things

• Giving human-like qualities to an object

• Repetition of consonant sounds

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

“The tea cup clinked and clanged as I put it down on the plate" is an example of:

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.8.5

CCSS.L.4.5

Which word means: To compare two things WITHOUT using like or as?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

What is onomatopoeia?

• Having the same sound at the end of two or more words

• Using the same word, phrase, line, or stanza two or more times in a poem

• Repeating consonant sounds

• A word that mimics a sound

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

What is tone?

• Stanzas in a poem

• The author’s attitude

• A nonfiction text

Tags

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.3.3A

He’s as fast as a cheetah.

• Onomatopoeia

• 
  Simile

• 
  Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CRASH! Went the cymbals during the song.

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

Some students sing silly songs on Saturdays.

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

The elephant is a large, gray mountain.

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

In this great big house, I felt as small as a mouse.

• Onomatopoeia

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4