Author's Craft

The following quotations features literary device:
‘Ah, William, we’re weary of weather,
said the sunflowers, shining with dew.
Our traveling habits have tired us.
Can you give us a room with a view?”

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• zeugma

The following line features which literary device:
"He possessed a cold fire in his eyes."

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• oxymoron

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CCSS.RL.K.1

CCSS.SL.K.2

The following sentence contains which literary device:
“Jimmy Smith was moving through the room like an enormous trained mole collecting the empty cans."

• oxymoron
• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.K.1

The following question features a simile, but also what other literary device?
"Why does a boy who’s fast as a jet take all day and sometimes two to get to school?"

• personification
• oxymoron
• hyperbole
• syndeoche

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CCSS.RL.K.1

CCSS.SL.K.2

CRASH!  Batman slammed the batmobile into the wall.

• onomatopeia
• simile
• personification
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.1

The colorful tree had leaves of gold, red, yellow and orange.

• simile
• alliteration
• imagery
• onomatopeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.1

CCSS.RI.K.7

CCSS.RL.K.7

The leaves danced and twirled in the wind.

• simile
• alliteration
• onomatopeia
• personification

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CCSS.RL.K.1

CCSS.SL.K.2

Fluffly flowers floated and flew in Florida.

• simile
• alliteration
• onomatopeia
• imagery

The blowing flag waved to the children.

• personification
• alliteration
• simile
• onomatopeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.1

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King’s horses, And all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again!

• alliteration
• free verse
• rhyme
• limerick

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CCSS.RF.K.2A

CCSS.RL.K.5