Literary Devices Examples

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• alliteration

• repetition

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

bright night

• alliteration

• imagery

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What would you call a section of a poem?

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• stanza

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

words an author might use to help the reader visualize and imagine using the senses

• alliteration

• imagery

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

My dad is a bear in the morning. The wind was an angry witch.

• metaphor

• imagery

• simile

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The leaves danced across

the lawn.

• metaphor

• imagery

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

bark, bark barking

wag, wag, wagging

• alliteration

• repetition

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.

• alliteration

• repetition

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

She is as cute as a kitten.

They fought like cats and dogs.

• simile

• repetition

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

• simile

• repetition

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D