Identify Literary Terms

What is the Literary Device?

The placing together of ideas or items, not normally associated with one another, side-by-side to create or enhance an effect. Blank is sometimes, but not always, accomplished by using contrast.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What is the Literary Device?

A word, phrase, or symbol that has two meanings: one literal and one inferential.

What is a Literary Device?

A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing that it refers to. It is usually just a passing comment; the writer expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to understand the significance of the allusion in a story.

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is the Literary Device?

The deliberate placing of words that contradict one another, side-by-side or in a phrase, in order to enhance or create an effect. 

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

What is the Literary Device?

A seemingly absurd situation or statement that has a degree of hidden truth to it.

What is the literary device?

An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

What is the Literary Device?

The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, parody, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

What is the Literary Device

that is the repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together in a sentence or verse?

• Anaphora

• Assonance

• Antithesis

• Apostrophe

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the Literary Device

that is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of each line of a poem, speech, or sermon?

• Anaphora

• Assonance

• Antithesis

• Apostrophe

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the Literary Device

that is a figure of speech where a speaker directly addresses someone who is not present, an inanimate object, or an abstract idea as if it were alive and capable of responding.

• Anaphora

• Assonance

• Antithesis

• Apostrophe

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4