Literary Devices

What is a literary device that compares two things using like or as?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the term for a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What literary device is used to give human characteristics to non-human things?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What is the term for the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song?

• Rhyme scheme

• Symbolism

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What literary device is used to represent ideas or qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense?

• Rhyme scheme

• Symbolism

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is the term for a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance?

• Rhyme scheme

• Symbolism

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What literary device is used to exaggerate statements for emphasis or effect?

• Rhyme scheme

• Symbolism

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is the term for a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth?

• Irony

• Paradox

• Incongruity

• Sarcasm

What literary device is used to create humor or make a point by using words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning?

• Irony

• Paradox

• Incongruity

• Sarcasm

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

What is the term for a figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory?

• Irony

• Paradox

• Incongruity

• Sarcasm