Literary Devices from "The Scarlet Ibis"

"The last graveyard flowers were blooming, and their smell drifted across the cotton field and through every room of our house, speaking softly the names of our dead."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

". ..and now if an oriole sings in the elm, its song seems to die up in the leaves, a silvery dust."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"They named him William Armstrong, which was like tying a big tail to a small kite."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"When he crawled, he crawled backwards, as if he were in reverse and couldn't change gears."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"Crawling backwards made him look like a doodlebug."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

“I pulled the go-cart through the saw-tooth fern, down into the green dimness where the palmetto fronds whispered by the stream.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"I would gather wildflowers, wild violets, honeysuckle, yellow jasmine, snakeflowers, and water lilies. . . we'd drop our jewels into the stream and watch them float away toward the sea."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"He collapsed onto the grass like a half-empty flour sack."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"They did not know that I did it for myself; that pride, whose slave I was, spoke to me louder than all their voices …"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4