Literary Devices

What is the device in this sentence?

She swims like a fish.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Irony

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.8.5A

She is a star.

This metaphor means:

• She is smart

• She shines like a star

• She is in the sky

• She is bad

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Continue this sentence:

Batman was fighting the Joker. "________", Batman punched Joker in the stomach.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Repetition is when a word, sound or phrase is repeated more than once.

Can you give me an example of repetition?

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The leaves waved in the wind.

My alarm clock yells at me to get out of the bed everyday.

Time flies when you are having fun!

These are examples of:

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Funny sentences

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A poem has:

• Stanzas

• Lines

• Rhyme

• Stories

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CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

Usually, a poem expresses or shows:

• Feelings and emotions

• Moral lesson

• Nothing

• Anything

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CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4