Author's Craft (Literary Terms)

After a persistent six month journey, NASA's Perseverance rover landed on planet Mars to pursue ancient life.

• rhyme

• alliteration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Angels have been serving ill Covid patients for the last year.

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

List and label all the devices you notice in the following sentence:

The sweet scent of the scones tickled my nose and awakened my appetite the moment I opened the oven door.

"'...Children are carpets...'" (Bradbury 6).

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

"'What prompted us to buy a nightmare?'" (Bradbury 10).

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

"The house lights followed her like a flock of fireflies" (Bradbury 5).

• Simile

• metaphor

• personification

• simile and personification

"The house was full of dead bodies, it seemed. It felt like a mechanical cemetery" (Bradbury 9).

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• All answer choices

What two unlike things are being compared in the following simile:

"They went off to the air closet, where a wind sucked them like brown leaves" (Bradbury 5).

• closet to leaves

• wind to suction

• air closet and wind

• the kids (them) to leaves

The novel shared its treasures.

• hyperbole

• simile

• assonance

• personification

Which sentence uses sensory language effectively?

• The cake is too sweet for my taste.

• The sweet, pink, flavorful strawberry shortbread is good.

• The ghost entered the dimly lit cabin through the open window and soundlessly approached his grieving widow.

• The bright, yellow sun is as warm as an oven.