Literary Device Examples

What is personification?

• a word that mimics a sound
• repetition of consonant sounds
• using symbols to represent something
• Giving human-like traits to non-living objects

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What is onomatopoeia?

• a word that mimics a sound
• repetition of consonant sounds
• using symbols to represent something
• Giving human-like traits to non-living objects

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is alliteration?

• a word that mimics a sound
• repetition of consonant sounds
• using symbols to represent something
• Giving human-like traits to non-living objects

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"America is a melting pot" is an example of 

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Foreshadowing
• Repetition

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 that uses exaggeration to express a strong emotion or create a statement is a...

• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
• Imagery
• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"If I were young. If I were strong. If I were loved. If I were wrong." The "ifs" are an example of...

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia
• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is an example of oxymoron below?

• Shining like a diamond
• Bob is a
• Zombie
• Jumbo shrimp

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Allusion is defined as______

• Two lines working as a unit
• A reference to a famous  person, place, or event
• A form of wordplay with similar sounding sounds
• Words that involve one of the five senses

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is an example of a consonance?

• I hit a cat with a bat wearing a hat (No i did not)
• Fee fi fo fum, i'm going to eat all of your bread crumbs 
• ℵ₁ to ℵ∞
• Nobody knows that, so just search it on google like what everyone else does for everything

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a common misunderstanding for consonances

• that they are alliterations

• that they are in many poems

• that they have to rhyme

• that they don't have to be in any language

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4