LITERARY DEVICES

"The leaves danced in the wind."
What literary device is used?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

As quiet as a mouse."
What literary device is used?

• Simile

• Personification

• Direct Address

• Repetition

"Big, bold, and brilliant ideas!"
What literary device is used?

• Hyperbole

• Contrast

• Pattern of Three

• Rhetorical Question

"The snake slithered silently through the grass."
What literary device is used?

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Direct Address

"Do you think I enjoy being ignored?"
What literary device is used?

• Simile

• Rhetorical Question

• Hyperbole

• Personification

What is the effect of using a simile in writing?

• To repeat the same word for emphasis

• To make a direct comparison without using “like” or “as”

• To help the reader visualize or understand something through comparison

• To show differences between two ideas

What is the effect of using repetition in a sentence?

• It makes the text shorter

• It confuses the reader

• It emphasizes an idea and makes it memorable

• It describes two opposite things

What is the effect of direct address in writing?

• It compares one thing to another

• It gives human qualities to objects

• It makes the reader feel personally involved

• It exaggerates a feeling or fact

What is the effect of personification?

• It adds emotion or mood by giving human traits to objects

• It creates a list of three ideas

• It repeats words to be annoying

• It tells a joke

What is the effect of using a rhetorical question?

• It makes the reader laugh

• It encourages deep thinking or emphasizes a point

• It makes the reader want to answer immediately

• It gives rhythm and sound to the sentence