English 10 Advanced Honors Literary Devices

Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity

• assonance

• polysyndeton

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it

• metonymy

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• asyndeton

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.

• euphemism

• consonance

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• metaphor

• anaphora

• metonymy

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• euphemism

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• consonance

• synecdoche

• alliteration

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword).

• metonymy

• anaphora

• hyperbole

• synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural

• consonance

• synecdoche

• polysyndeton

• anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions

• onomatopoeia

• asyndeton

• alliteration

• metonymy

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A word that imitates the sound it represents.

• polysyndeton

• onomatopoeia

• synecdoche

• consonance

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4