Literary Devices

A refrence within the text to another work or historical happening that provides context to the story

Giving inanimate objects human or living characteristics

Repetition of intial consonant sounds

Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.

• Aphorism

• apostrophe

• analogy

• antithesis

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• The wind howled in the dark night sky.

• The trees were a beautiful color, like the bright orange of sunset.

• Her hair was dark as night.

• His mother yelled at him like a banshee.

This is an example of

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Allusion

Fall Fridays feel fantastic. 

• onomatopoeia
• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor

Which of the following is an example of repetition?

• CRASH!

• The bright red cardinal flew majestically over the snow-peaked mountain.

• I recall the time when Lincoln was president, before slavery was ended, before the Civil War.

• I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.

What is mood?

• The overall feeling the audience/reader is meant to have

• How the characters in a text feel

• What the author thinks about a subject

• How the author persuades the reader

She has cried a million times.

• simile
• personification
• hyperbole
• alliteration