Literary devices tracking sheet

Compares two things NOT using like or as

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

An exaggerated way of saying something

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The life lesson of a story

• Personification

• Theme

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

When an inanimate object is given human characteristics

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

When something hints to a later event in the story

• Flashback

• Irony

• Foreshadowing

• Point of View

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

When a character has a conflict with someone else

• Man vs Nature

• Man vs Man

• Man vs Self

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

When a character has a conflict with themselves

• Man vs Nature

• Man vs Man

• Man vs Self

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

When a character has a conflict with something in the world. ex: sickness

• Man vs Nature

• Man vs Man

• Man vs Self

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The occurrence of the same sound in a piece of literature

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Figurative language which invokes one or more of the senses

• Foreshadowing

• Imagery

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5