Identify Literary Terms

Silly Sally sold seashells at the seashore is an example of what?

• metaphor
• alliteration
• connotation
• allegory

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A central character who lacks conventional heroic qualities.

• simile
• denotation
• allegory
• anti-hero

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The sun kissed her face is an example of what literary term?

• personification
• conflict
• allegory
• flashback

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The dictionary definition of a word.

• connotation
• denotation
• anagram
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

I am so tired I could sleep for a million years is an example of what?

• plot
• denotation
• hyperbole
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Ramona is a pest is an example of what?

• simile
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The leather is as soft as butter is an example of what?

• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole
• denotation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A literary device in which the author jumbles of parts of a word to create a new word.

• anagram
• plot
• allegory
• conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The sequence of events that make up a story.

• conflict
• flashback
• hyperbole
• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

In the Disney movie Ratatouille, the food critic takes a bite of food and the movie flashes to when he was a child eating his mother's dinner.  This is an example of what?

• hyperbole
• flashback
• flashforward
• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5