Literary Devices

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 two things without using like or as

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

An obvious exaggeration

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• theme

• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The life lesson or moral of a story

• Personification

• Theme

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

When the reader knows something the character in the story does not

• Irony

• Situational irony

• Verbal irony

• Dramatic Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

When a character says something but means the opposite

• situational irony

• verbal irony

• theme

• direct characterization

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

When an inanimate object is given human characteristics

• Similie

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

When something happens that is the opposite of what we expect

• Situational Irony

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Verbal Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

When something hints to a later event in the story

• Flashback

• Irony

• Foreshadowing

• Point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The point of view of a story where the pronouns I or me are used when the narrator is speaking

• 3rd person point of view

• 2nd person point of view

• 1st person point of view

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D