Literary Devices

Dark woods hide secrets

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

My life runs fast like a cheetah

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Misty mountains sing and beckon

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

She sells shells by the seashore

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

She was buried under a mountain of paperwork

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The buzzing bee flew away

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

John's suggestion was just a Band-Aid for the problem

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Nothing annoys me more than rapidly clicking your pen

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Then like a cold wave on a shore, comes silence and she sings no more

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Can you keep the cat from clawing the couch? It's creating chaos

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4