Literary Devices

What is foreshadow?

• a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

• Before the character is seen you see their shadow

• too scary to mention

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is Allusion?

• A dark shadow cast by the moon

• My grandma makes excellent muffins

• When I use a reference to something everyone would know

• A magic trick

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Alliteration

• same ends sounds

• Same beginning sounds

• middle sounds

• literary

• cousin to the alligator

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Comparison of unlike things using "like" or "as"

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Juxtaposition

• Compares and contrasts two unlike things by placing them side by side.

• When you put money in and a sing plays for you.

• A pose uncommonly used in karate

• Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medecine go down.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

It has been given of human qualities but is not human.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A sound in the form of a word such as "Bang!"

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

what is? An unusually sudden realization, illuminating discovery. A revealing scene or moment when a character learns something new. 

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

If I have asked you once, I have asked you a million times, please put your dishes in the dishwasher after meals.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5