Literary Devices/ techniques

Identify the correct literary device:

She was as brave as a lion.

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

________ is a comparison using the words "like" or "as"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Identify the literary device/ technique:

The snow was a white blanket on the grass.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

____________ is when the author/writer gives hints/clues about something that is going to happen later on in the text.

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Irony

• Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

____________ is a literary device that allows writers to show their audience specific events that happened before the current action of the story.

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Irony

• Climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is being foreshadowed?

• Little Red Riding Hood is going to get hungry.

• Little Red Riding Hood is going to encounter the big bad wolf

• Little Red Riding Hood is going to get nervous and stay home instead.

• Little Red Riding Hood's grandma is going to get hurt.

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

This clip from the movie "Up" is a __________________ of Carl and Ellie's childhood together. It helps the audience better understand their relationship and how Carl feels about Ellie's death.

• Imagery

• Foreshadowing

• Conflict

• Flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

____________ is the author's use of vivid descriptions that appeals to the readers five sense (to help them visualize what is being described).

• hyperbole

• irony

• imagery

• setting

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Identify the literary device/ technique:

The big, fresh, juicy orange is very cold and sweet.

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Point of view

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

These are examples of which literary device?

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A