WorksheetsQ1W7D2A2 - LITERARY DEVICES
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
PE 1 - HYPERBOLE
Attributing human characteristics to objects, ideas, animals or nature
A language that describes something as better as or worse than it really is
A comparison between two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’
A direct comparison between two things.
Personification
Attributing human characteristics to objects, ideas, animals or nature.
A direct comparison between two things
They use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think.
Repetition of words, phrases or structures.
Irony
A language that describes something as better as or worse than it really is
Repetition of words, phrases or structures.
They use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think
Attributing human characteristics to objects, ideas, animals or nature
Repetition
A comparison between two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’
Repetition of words, phrases or structures.
Words that imitate sounds
A direct comparison between two things.
Simile
Words that imitate sounds
Attributing human characteristics to objects, ideas, animals or nature
They use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think.
A comparison between two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’
Metaphor
A direct comparison between two things.
They use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think.
Attributing human characteristics to objects, ideas, animals or nature
A comparison between two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’
Assonance
Repetition of words, phrases or structures.
The use words that have the same or similar vowel sound near one another
A direct comparison between two things.
They use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think.
Alliteration
Repetition of the initial consonant sound
Repetition of words, phrases or structures.
The use words that have the same or similar vowel sound near one another
A direct comparison between two things
. Onomatopoeia
Words that imitate sounds
Attributing human characteristics to objects, ideas, animals or nature
A direct comparison between two things
Words that imitate sounds
In the darkness, the wind and rain grew louder and seemed closer.
Hyperbole
Personification
Simila
Metaphor
Joey sat still, his heart beating fast. It made a ‘thump, thump, thump’ noise in his chest.
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Personification
BANG! Again there was a loud noise on the roof. Again Joey jumped. He held the book more tightly.
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
BRRRING! BRRRING! The telephone! Then it stopped, even before Joey had moved.
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Assonance
Again: BRRRING! BRRRING! Joey ran to answer it.
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Alliteration
The wind was blowing so hard, the sun was scared to come.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
The teacher is like an angry lion when she is mad.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
The boy believed black birds bite.
Assonance
Alliteration
Simile
Metaphor
The men were jumping like a pack of frantic grizzly bears.
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
The sky is a rainbow of colors
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
