Literary Devices - Set 1

a reference to a well-known person, event, place, literary work, or work of art

• allusion

• alliterataion

• extended metaphor

• similie

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

the repetition of initial consonant sounds

• allusion

• alliteration

• imagery

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a central message about life that is illustrated in a literary work

• allusion

• metaphor

• theme

• tone

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

the feeling created in the reader by literary work or passage

• theme

• tone

• symbolism

• mood

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

the writer's attitude toward their audience and/or subject

• tone

• mood

• theme

• flashback

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

a struggle between opposing forces

• mood

• conflict

• tone

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

the use of anything that stands for represents something on a deeper level

• simile

• extended metaphor

• symbolism

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

a type of figurative language that uses exaggeration to add emphasis

• hyperbolde

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

a type of figurative language in which something is described as though it were something else

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D