Literary Devices

Front

Personification

Back

Giving human-like traits to non-living objects.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Front

Alliteration

Back

Repetition of consonant sounds

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Onomatopoeia

Back

A word that mimics a sound.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Front

Metaphor:

Back

A comparison of two things using is or was.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

Symbolism

Back

using symbols to represent something

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Front

Simile

Back

Comparing two unlike things using like or as.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

Apostrophe in poetry:

Back

used to address someone or something that is not there.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Front

Struggle between opposing forces (e.g., Lennie vs. Curley, Lennie vs. George, Candy vs. himself, Ranch men vs. society)

Back

conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Front

Time and place of a story (e.g., Salinas River, 1930s)

Back

setting

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Front

Adding human traits to non-living things. Ex: "the afternoon sun sliced through the cracks of barn walls"

Back

personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A