Literary Devices Part 1_2025_6C

___ is that you emphasise a non-human's characteristics by describing them with human attributes.

• Simile

• Personification

• Pun

• Apostrophe

A / An ___ involves words with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings.

• personification

• rhetorical question

• simile

• pun

 ___ is an intentional exaggeration for emphasis or comic effect. 

• Personification

• Symbolism

• Hyperbole

• Apostrophe

 ___ is a figure of speech in which something is expressed less strongly than would be expected.

• Symbolism

• Pun

• Understatement

• Hyperbole

A ___ is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”.

• metaphor

• antithesis

• anaphora

• simile

___ is a common poetic device where an object in, or the subject of, a poem is described as being the same as another otherwise unrelated object.

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Pun

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

___ means using or creating words that imitate or name a sound.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

 A / An ____ is a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses someone (or something) that is not present or cannot respond in reality.

• a. apostrophe

• b. simile

• c. metaphor

• d. pun

 ___ pairs exact opposite or contrasting ideas in a parallel grammatical structure.

• a. Personification

• b. Antithesis

• c. Anaphora

• d. Hyperbole

___ is a figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences.

• a. Understatement

• b. Pun

• c. Anaphora

• d. Hyperbole