SSC 8 Literary Devices

a comparison of 2 unlike things using like or as

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

a word or phrase that is used to describe something that does not literally apply to it

• onomatopoeia
• personification
• metaphor 
• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

two or more words in a row starting with the same sound

• allusion
• alliteration
• personification
• figure of speech

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

an obvious and intentional exaggeration

• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• alliteration
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

giving human characteristics to an animal or object

• onomatopoeia
• metaphor
• simile
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

words that sound similar to the sound they are describing

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• allusion
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

common expressions that are not literal and are used by certain groups of people

• simile
• metaphor
• alliteration
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a comparison of two unlike things for the purposes of an explanation

• allusion
• alliteration
• idiom
• analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

one in a million

• allusion
• idiom
• alliteration
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

all the world is a stage 

• simile
• metaphor
• hperbole
• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D