Literary Devices

“My heart danced when he walked in the room.”

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

“Her voice is full of money.”

• Personification

• Irony

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

“You’re a regular Einstein.”

• Simile

• Imagery

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.”

• Allusion

• Repetition

• Metaphor

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

“The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulfur tint in others.”

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

“If I can’t find the perfect prom dress, I’ll die.”

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

“I am as happy as a clam” is an example of a/an:

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Motif

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

The topic of prejudice occurred many times in To Kill A Mockingbird. That makes it:

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Motif

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

“The smell of coffee wafted through the air and jolted me awake” is an example of:

• Symbol

• Tone

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

“Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers” is an example of

• Allusion

• Allitertion

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5