Literary Terms Practice

"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag

Drifting thought the wind

Wanting to start again?"

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"'Cause baby you're a firework.

Come on show 'em what your worth."

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Boom, boom, boom

Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon.

It's always been inside of you, you, you

And now it's time to let it through, -ough, -ough."

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"Phone's blowin' up, ringin' my doorbell"

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"It was the early afternoon of a sunshiny day with little winds playing hide-and-seek in it.”

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

"That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles

And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet."

And I was crying on the staircase

Begging you, 'Please don't go.'"

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely"

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The central problem of the story

• Climax

• Tone

• Theme

• Conflict

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Painting a picture with words; appealing to the five senses

• Theme

• Imagery

• Climax

• Tone

• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The way the author or speaker feels

• Theme

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Tone

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3