Literary Device Enrichment Opportunity

A comparison using "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• simile

• similar

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A comparison NOT using "like" or "as"

• simile

• imagery

• metaphor

• metamorph

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things

• humanification

• hyperbole

• personification

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A word that resembles the sound it represents (Bam! Pow!)

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Descriptive language that appeals to the senses

• idiom

• imagery

• imagination

• description

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The methods a writer uses to reveal the physical appearance and personality of a character

• flashback

• theme

• allusion

• characterization

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A character who develops or changes over the course of a story (Shrek)

• main character

• dynamic character

• static character

• character motivation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A character who does not change over the course of a story (Donkey)

• main character

• dynamic character

• static character

• character motivation

A character's incentive or reason for acting in a certain manner

• main character

• dynamic character

• static character

• character motivation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Recalling an earlier event out of the normal chronological order of a story.

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• irony

• mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5