Literary Devices Final Review

This is giving non-human things human characteristics

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

This is a short, introductory section that provides background information for a play or novel

• epilogue

• prologue

• soliloquy

• allusion

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

This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in a line of poetry

• personification

• alliteration

• imagery

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

This is the feeling created for the reader in a literary work

• simile

• soliloquy

• hyperbole

• mood

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

This is a humorous play on words such as "That dreamers often lie."

• malapropism

• oxymoron

• pun

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

A comparison of two unlike things that DOES NOT use "like" or "as"

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

This is a reference to a well-known person, place, event or literary work in another literary work

• pun

• malapropism

• allusion

• hyperbole

This is the use of clues that hint at events that will happen later in the story

• foreshadowing

• dramatic irony

• hyperbole

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

This is the act of talking to oneself or a type of monologue

• allusion

• soliloquy

• dramatic irony

• paradox

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

This is a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• simile

• metaphor

• pun

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D