Literary Devices

"Purple puppies like playing on the playground." This is an example of

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When a word’s vocalization imitates a natural sound, as can be heard in the words murmur, buzz, and pop, what do we call that device?

• anaphora

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Giving human traits and qualities to non-human beings is called...

• personification

• irony

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

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CCSS.L.6.5A

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

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• allegory

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Hints or clues used by the author to tell what will happen later in the book is a device known as...

• flashback

• mood

• simile

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The use of exaggeration for effect in writing is called...

• oxymoron

• litote

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

'a defeaning silence' and 'living dead' are examples of what?

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A