Literary Devices - Set 1

Front

Reference to a well-known person, event, place, literary work, or art

Back

allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Front

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

Back

alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Central message about life in literature

Back

theme

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Front

Feeling created in the reader by a literary work.

Back

mood

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Front

Writer's attitude toward audience/subject

Back

tone

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Front

Struggle between opposing forces

Back

conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Front

Use of something that represents a deeper meaning

Back

symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Front

Figurative language giving human traits to nonhuman subjects

Back

personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Front

Figurative language using exaggeration for emphasis.

Back

hyperbolde

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Front

Figurative language describing one thing as another.

Back

metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D