Literary Devices & Figurative Language

A reference to someone or something commonly known from literature, history, religion, or other areas of popular culture.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A tool used to help the reader envision or understand what they are talking about by comparing something to something else and making it relatable.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

An exaggerated statement or claim that cannot be taken literally.

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A phrase that means something completely different from what it sounds.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A direct comparison using like or as.

• Allusion

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A comparison identifying one thing as another.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Analogy

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

"It was so cold that if you were stupid enough to go outside your eyes would automatically blink a thousand times all by themselves, probably so the juice inside of them wouldn't freeze up (Curtis 1)."

What is this an example of?

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The boss is like a lion.

What type of figurative language is this?

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The tree caught the kite.

What type of figurative language is this?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A