Literary Terms Ohio

A comparison between 2 unlike objects NOT using "like" or "as."

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

'You are like a ray of sunshine!' is an example of:

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"He's as strong as an ox" is an example of

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify the simile

• I like apples.
• Apples taste sweet.
• You're the apple of my eye.
• This apple is as sweet as candy.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify the metaphor

• My heart was a bucket full of joy after all the sweet compliments.
• My heart is a muscle.
• My heart is like a hand pump pushing blood all throughout my body.
• My heart is like a muscle.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Vivid description of things seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted is the definition of

• Theme

• Sensory Details

• Imagery

• Sound Devices

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is alliteration?

• A word in which the sound reflects is meaning.

• Repeating words or phrases to give emphasis to the message.

• It is a literary device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.

• Is the repetition of a vowel sound.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing, for example BUZZ and POP:

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

• Allusion

• Foreshadowing

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is an irony?

• It is a literary technique in which the characters become animals.

• It is a literary technique in which the characters become real.

• It is a literary technique in which the author describes the characters of the story.

• It is a literary technique in which what is written or stated is different from or the opposite of what is expected.

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CCSS.L.8.5A

"A man who needs medical assistance is run over by the ambulance." is an example of:

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.8.5A