Literary Devices

The boys believed black birds bite.

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The sky is a rainbow of colors.

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Cra-sack! Whumph! The beam broke and fell on them.

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

The grass is an ocean of flowers.

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

There are a zillion stars in the sky tonight.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is a comparison made using the words 'like' or 'as'?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is a comparison made directly or indirectly without using 'like' or 'as'?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is giving human characteristics to something which is not human?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What are words which attempt to imitate sounds?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is a repetition of initial letters in a sequence of words?

• Alliteration

• Plosive

• Sibilance

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4