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WorksheetsLiterary devices
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
What is a symbol?
Another word for a theme
Words that create an image in our mind
three things that represents or stands for something else
a thing that represents or stands for something else
What is Imagery?
Use of particular words that create visual representation of ideas in our minds
Use of three words that create visual representation of ideas in our minds
Use of the words 'like' and 'as' to create visual representation of ideas in our minds
Use of particular words that create meaning about the text
What literary device am I?
“dragged behind like a ball on a chain”
Simile
Personification
Symbol
Imagery
What is Foreshadowing?
an advanced hint of what theme will be used in the story
an advanced hint of what symbol the author will use in the story.
an advanced hint of who the main character is in the story.
an advanced hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is a protagonist? [pro-tag-on-ist]
The lead character in a text
A character that supports the main character in a text
A character who is against the main character
Another word for theme
What does connotation mean?
The main theme used by the author
The central message in a text
An idea or feeling a word creates in addition to its literal meaning.
An idea or feeling three words create in addition to its literal meaning.
What does onomatopoeia [on-o-mat-o-pee-a] mean?
A word that that means the opposite.
Another word for a simile
Another word for imagery
A word that that sounds like how it is written.
For example:
Sizzle, tweet, buzz
What is an Antagonist?
The character who does not develop
The character who dies in the end
The female character who goes against the main character or hero
The character who goes against the main character or hero
What is a theme?
Means the idea or ‘message’ that the story communicates.
There is often more than one idea or theme that runs through a story.
Means the important character in a story.
There is often more than one important character.
Means the idea or ‘message’ that the reader creates
Means the amount of similes used within a story
What does personification mean?
A figure of speech in which a natural force is portrayed or addressed as if a wild animal.
A figure of speech that uses the words like or as.
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object (something that isn't alive or natural force is portrayed or addressed as if a human being.
For example: ‘the road is dead. Nobody or anything will bring it back to life’.
An advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is a metaphor?
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things using the words “like” and “as”.
For example: ‘Love is a battlefield’.
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things without using the words “like” and “as”.
For example: ‘Love is a battlefield’.
A figure of speech comparing two characters
refers to the moral development of the protagonist
What is a Simile?
A figure of speech comparing two animals
A figure of speech comparing four unlike things linked by the words using the words “like” and “as”.
For example, “my love is like a red, red rose”.
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things linked by the words using the words “like” and “as”.
For example, “my love is like a red, red rose”.
Words or phrases that aren't meant to be taken literally
What is a euphemism?
Refers to a meaning that is implied by a word.
A thing that represents or stands for something else.
An expression where the words have a different meaning than what is stated.
For example: She kicked the bucket
An expression where the words have the same meaning as what is stated.
For example: She kicked the bucket
What is an idiom?
Are words or phrases that are meant to be taken literally.
For example:
I'm going to call it a night; meaning, I’m going to bed.
Are words or phrases that aren't meant to be taken literally.
For example:
I'm going to call it a night; meaning, I’m going to bed.
An advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
The lead or central character in a text
What example of a literary device am I?
"The shadow of the moon danced on the lake"
Personification
Simile
Connotation
Idiom
What example of a literary device am I?
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Idiom
Symbol
What example of a literary device am I?
'Winds grabbed the house and shook the walls, rain hammered on the roof like it was trying to break in'.
Symbol
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Metaphor
