Literacy Devices

Animals and non-living objects are the main characters

and are given human qualities

• Figurative

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Fable

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Identical or similar concluding syllables in different words are repeated

• Rhyme

• Rhyme

  Scheme

• Alliteration

• Hubris

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza

• Rhyme

• Rhyme

  Scheme

• Alliteration

• Hubris

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words

• Rhyme

• Rhyme

  Scheme

• Alliteration

• Hubris

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Mimics the sound of a real word

• Rhyme

• Rhyme

  Scheme

• Alliteration

• Hubris

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Use of words that is strange or funny or opposite to expectation

• Irony

• Suspense

• Symbol

• Satire

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Gives an uneasy feeling to reader when they don't know

what is going to happen next

• Irony

• Suspense

• Symbol

• Satire

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

An object that has a literal meaning in a story but

suggests or represents other meanings

• Irony

• Suspense

• Symbol

• Satire

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Use irony or humor or sarcasm to ridicule or

make fun of a person or a situation

• Irony

• Suspense

• Symbol

• Satire

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Comparing 2 things not using like or as

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A