Literary Devices - Examples

Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

• The water glistened like a star in the night.

• The snow was a white blanket on the normally green grass.

• Her stare was cold as ice.

• The dove represents peace on earth.

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Which of the following is an example of imagery?

• Playing sports is a lot of fun.

• The boy bounced the ball.

• The young boy excitedly ran to the ball.

• The ball was a deep red, like that of a fire truck, glistening in the bright sun.

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Which of the following is an example of a simile?

• Her hair shined like the sun.

• The snowflakes danced in the wind.

• Her hair was a flowing river.

• The delicious ice cream made her jump for joy.

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Which of the following is an example of irony? (more than one!)

• A marriage counselor files for divorce

• A fire station burned down

• An old man has a heart attack

• Someone posts on Facebook about how dumb Facebook is

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Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

• BOOM!

• The soda can exploded in my hand like a rocket ship going into space.

• Her skin was as soft as a baby's.

• The purple pants were perfect on the professor.

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Which of the following is an example of allusion?

• He was acting like Hitler, I was nervous we were about to have a 3rd World War.

• A little lad listened to the lisping lizard.

• CRASH!

• He cried like a baby.

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Which of the following is an example of onomatopoeia?

• CRASH!

• The bright red cardinal flew majestically over the snow-peaked mountain.

• I recall the time when Lincoln was president, before slavery was ended, before the Civil War.

• I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.

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Which of the following is an example of personification?

• The wind howled in the dark night sky.

• The trees were a beautiful color, like the bright orange of sunset.

• Her hair was dark as night.

• His mother yelled at him like a banshee.

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Which of the following is correct?

• Foreshadowing - when an author goes back in time to describe an event / Flashback -when an author gives clues as to what will happen

• Foreshadowing - giving human-like traits to non-human things / Flashback - when an author gives clues as to what will happen

• Foreshadowing - when an author gives clues as to what will happen / Flashback - comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• Foreshadowing - when an author gives clues as to what will happen / Flashback - when an author goes back in time to describe an event

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In Lemony Snicket, most of the inhabitants of the island on which the Baudelaires find themselves in The End are characters from The Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Imagery

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