Literary Devices

Check all of the following which are similes.

• He ran as fast as a cheetah

• They were clowns

• She liked ice cream

• She climbed like a mountain goat.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Check all of the following which are metaphors

• They were clowns

• She ate like a bird

• She's a snake

• Like a wolf, he cried into the night.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Snow speaks to the people; it’s falling above in the glooming sunlight. Its white, sparkling voice echoes as it falls through the air.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! Joe’s boots broke the forest’s silence. A full moon peeked out from behind two clouds. Tree shadows illuminated the snow drifts in its shimmering light. Joe shivered as a cold gust of wind blew through his jacket.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Imagery
• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Imagery
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When the woman kept changing the subject I knew she had something to hide.  I wasn’t surprised when she turned out to be guilty.

• Foreshadowing
• Personfication
• Simile
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Giving human traits and qualities to non-human things is what?

• Irony
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

The comparison of one thing to another without using the words "like" or "as" is calles what?

• metaphor
• simile
• allegory
• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" is referred to as a?

• metaphor
• flashback
• simile
• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

A group of words who contain the same sound , at the beginning of the word,are called what?

• onomatopoeia
• anagram
• allegory
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4