Literary Devices Review

Gives human characteristics to something nonhuman.

• Metaphor

• Personfication

• Onomatopoeia

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• Rhyme

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Dialogue

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What literary device do you use when you make a comparison between two things, usually using the words "like" or "as"?

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

This literary device makes a direct comparison by stating one thing as another.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

When a word imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.

• Alliteration

• Refrain

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.K.5

Exaggerated statements, not meant to be taken literally.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Refrain

• Dialogue

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.

• Refrain

• Dialogue

• Personification

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

This is the repetition of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

A literary device that involves intentionally using the same word or phrase at least twice or more for effect.

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

This literary device is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in poetry — the "chorus" of a song.

• Simile

• Rhyme

• Dialogue

• Refrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10