Literary Devices and Examples

What is the literary device used in the sentence? The trash bins are disorganized and unclean.

• Personification

• Simile

• Irony

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The nonchalant friend talked so coldly to his classmates. His classmates thought he had ___.

• ice in his veins

• apple of my eye

• the black plague

• the great wall

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

If the dogs and cats own our houses, what is the lion?

• father of the wild

• prince of the forest

• master of the fierce

• king of the jungle

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

If your baby sister will cry a lot like that in the picture, she would cause a ___.

• large lake

• big earthquake

• gigantic garden

• big tsunami

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The cute little baby smiled ___; this is an example of _.

• like a bear; simile

• like a cloud; metaphor

• like an angel; simile

• like a feather; personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Anne waited for more than 30 minutes for her Grabfood order from Jollibee, and it felt like an eternity for her. What literary device is used in this sentence?

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

The palm trees waved their branches to me. The trees tried to greet me as I passed by. What literary device is used.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Irony

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

“All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts. . .”

—William Shakespeare, As You Like It

What is the literary device used in the poem?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Jane took herself on a much-needed vacation, backpacking in the mountains and she came back more tired ever than before. What is the literary device used in the sentence?

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Irony
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

My best friend is a teddy bear because she is so huggable. What literary device is used in the sentence?

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4