Literary Devices

Comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

An extreme exaggeration is...

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is it called when you use words to appeal to one or more of the five senses?

• Simile

• Imagery

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

An allusion is...

• a reference to something famous (person, place or thing)

• the voice of a poem

• a verse that tells a story

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is a comparison between two unlike things that does NOT use "like" or "as"?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is the definition of "mood"?

• How a text makes the reader feel

• Sound words

• Extreme exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Words that START with the same sound and are used repeatedly in a sentence.

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Words that SOUND like the actions they refer to.

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• literary device

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is foreshadowing?

• The use of clues to hint at future events in the story

• Using words to appeal to one or more of the five senses

• The use of friendship to suggest what will happen later in the story

• The use of suspense to suggest what will happen later in the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A reference to a previous event

• Flashback
• Foreshadowing
• theme
• rising action

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5