Understanding Literary Devices and Themes

Allusion

• Problem with tradition or society

• A reference to a literary, mythological, or historical person, place, or thing

• the feeling in the reader

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Example of an Allusion: To my dog, our neighborhood park is the Garden of Eden

• true

• false

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When one thing is expected to happen or be, and the exact opposite happens.

• idiom

• simile

• point of view

• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Overall meaning that the author conveys through events and character experiences. A lesson about life or people.

• central idea

• theme

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Hints or clues throughout a story that suggest that something is about to happen.

• Idiom

• Mood

• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The quality of a literary work that makes the reader uncertain or tense about the outcome of events.

• simile

• point- of- view

• mood

• suspense

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Writing that gives animals, inanimate objects, or abstract ideas human characteristics.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Idiom

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A comparison of two unlike things not using like or as.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Hyperbole

• A deliberate, extravagant and often outrageous exaggeration may be used for either serious or conflict effect

• An accepted phrase or expression having meaning different from the literal.

• An interruption of the sequence of a narrative to relate an action that happened at an earlier point in time

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The book weighs a ton

• simile

• hyperbole

• sleeping like a log

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A