Literary Devices and Figurative Language
Authored by Sarah Williams
English
8th Grade
CCSS covered
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
This house is as clean as a whistle.
simile
metaphor
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which type of figurative language is used in this sentence?
"Ugh, 3 o'clock is NEVER going to get here!"
idiom
hyperbole
metaphor
personification
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The snow danced around in the wind.
metaphor
personification
simile
Tags
CCSS.L.6.5A
4.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A literary device could be......
Foreshadowing
Orientation
Flashback
Resolution
Tags
CCSS.L.7.6
CCSS.L.8.6
CCSS.W.7.2D
CCSS.W.8.2D
CCSS.L.9-10.6
5.
DRAG AND DROP QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
I'm so upset. I could cry a river.
This statement is an example of (a)
hyperbole
oxymoron
simile
paradox
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
6.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Match the following
text evidence
paraphrased or directly quoted detail(s) from a text that supports a reader’s claim, thought, inference, or analysis about the text
simile
the author’s thoughtful use of precise vocabulary to fully convey meaning to the reader
metaphor
a comparison of two unlikely things in which the author describes a person using words, but it does not use like or as “She is a ray of sunshine.”
word choice
a comparison of two things that are essentially different, usually using the words like or as
idiom
an expression that has a different meaning from the literal meaning of its individual words. “I’m on top of the world!”
Tags
CCSS.L.7.6
CCSS.L.8.6
CCSS.W.7.2D
CCSS.W.8.2D
CCSS.W.9-10.2D
7.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Match the following figurative language examples
I could stare into your eyes as a thousand years come and go.
Hyperbole
Time is a green orchard.
Simile
Endless wealth held out its arms to me.
Personification
Within the town of Buffalo Are men like ants they worry to and fro,
Metaphor
Forward still, though behind I heard the moaning and the murmur of the sea.
Imagery
Tags
CCSS.L.3.5A
CCSS.RL.3.4
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