Literary Devices

What is alliteration?

• The repetition of letters in a line of poetry
• the repetition of letter sounds in a line of poetry
• the repetition of vowel sounds in poetry
• the repetition of consonant sounds in poetry

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

What is assonance?

• The repetition of letters in a line of poetry
• the repetition of letter sounds in a line of poetry
• the repetition of vowel sounds in poetry
• the repetition of consonant sounds in poetry

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using like or as.

• metaphor
• hyperbole
• simile
• stanza

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is consonance?

• The repetition of letters in a line of poetry
• the repetition of letter sounds in a line of poetry
• the repetition of vowel sounds in poetry
• the repetition of consonant sounds in poetry

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Identify the simile

• I like apples.
• Apples taste sweet.
• You're the apple of my eye.
• This apple is as sweet as candy.

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

Identify the metaphor

• My heart was a bucket full of joy after all the sweet compliments.
• My heart is a muscle.
• My heart is like a hand pump pushing blood all throughout my body.
• My heart is like a muscle.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Oxymorons are contradictory phrases.

• True

• False

El Salvador's flag can be noted as a/an...

• simile

• paradox

• anthropomorphism

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Eeyore is a "depressed donkey." He is an/a...

• metaphor

• anthropormorphism

• personification

• oxymoron

Define foreshadowing.

• A flashback of what happened previously
• A hint at something that will happen later
• Giving human-like characteristics to non-living things
• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3