Literary Devices

When authors give human traits to animals or some other lifeless object

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A writer’s vivid description that helps readers to see, hear, feel, touch, or smell what is being described

• imagery

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

When two or more words in a sentence share the same beginning consonant sound

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• alliteratioin

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A band of bees barged brazenly into our back yard.

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Like a heavenly choir, the birds chirped outside my window.

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The stars are diamonds in the clear winter sky.

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The baby shattered my eardrums with his non-stop crying.

• imagery

• hyperbole

• personification

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I was lost in a sea of nameless faces.

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The wheels of justice turn slowly.

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The truth was like a bad taste on his tongue.

• hyperbole

• alliteratioin

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D