Literary Devices

A comparison between 2 unlike objects NOT using "like" or "as."

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The use of exaggeration for effect.

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Words that START with the same sound and are used repeatedly in a sentence.

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

A comparison between 2 unlike objects USING "like" or "as."

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

A technique a writer uses to produce a special effect in writing.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• literary device

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Words that SOUND like the actions they refer to.

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• literary device

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

He's as strong as an ox.

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

When an author gives an inanimate object human or living characteristics. For example: the trees danced in the wind.

• personification
• alliteration
• simile
• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When a writer uses very descriptive language to create PICTURES in the mind of the reader that appeals to all 5 senses.

• idiom

• imagery

• alliteration

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

The lazy cloud refused to move away from the sun.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.5.3