Stylistic Devices

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. (Charles Schwab)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Pun

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

It´s not SMALL, it´s BIG. It´s IMPORTANT.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Little by little, bit by bit, and day by day, and year by year the baron got the worst of some disputed question contains … . 

• antithesis

• climax 

• paradox

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

A character stepping out into a hurricane and saying, “What nice weather we're having!”

• Irony

• Zeugma

• Allusion

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.8.5A

He is a walking encyclopedia

• Metaphor

• Pun

• Zeugma

• Allusion

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Exaggeration in speech for a strong effect.

• hendiadys

• hysteron proteron

• hyperbaton

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Find the type of Stylistic device: He fell in love married and surrounded himself with little rosy cheeks.

• Metaphor

• Periphrasis

• Irony

• Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Find the type of Stylistic device: You are a giver, John, she is a taker.

• Antonomasia

• Peripharsis

• Antithesis

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Find the type of Stylistic device: Say yes. If you don't, I'll break into tears. I'II sob, I'll moan, I'll grawl.

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Antonomasia

• Gradation

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

... is change of natural or recognized order of words or phases in a sentence.

• Inversion

• Ellipsis

• Represented speech

• Gradation

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4