Literary Devices

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

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

The use of exaggeration for effect.

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

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

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RF.1.2C

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

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

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

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• literary device

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

Words that SOUND like the actions they refer to.

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• literary device

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

He's as strong as an ox.

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

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.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

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.W.5.3B

CCSS.W.5.3D

The lazy cloud refused to move away from the sun.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4