Literary Devices

The cactus saluted any visitor brave enough to travel the scorched land.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The car went faster than the speed of light.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I have a million things to do today.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The sunflowers nodded in the wind.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A Comparison Using like or as

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Similie

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Compares to things not using like or as

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

An exaggerated way of saying something

• hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Theme

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When an inanimate object is given human characteristics

• Similie

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

When the story goes back to previous events

• Irony

• Time travel

• Theme

• Flashback

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