Literary Devices and Their Definitions

Which literary device uses descriptive language that appeals to the senses to create vivid mental pictures?

• Irony

• Imagery

• Sylbolism

• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A comparison between two different things using “like” or “as” is called:

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allegory

• Apostrophe

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work of art is known as:

• Allusion

• Allegory

• Point of View

• Sylbolism

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The perspective from which a story is narrated is called:

• Irony

• Point of View

• Allusion

• Apostrophe

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CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

When a speaker addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or an object as if it could respond, the device is called:

• Alliteration

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Apostrophe

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A story in which characters and events symbolize abstract concepts to convey a moral or political message is:

• Allusion

• Allegory

• Imagery

• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities beyond their literal meaning is:

• Imagery

• Point of Virw

• Narration

• Sylbolism

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Giving human traits to animals, objects, or abstract concepts is known as:

• Point of View

• Allegory

• Personification

• Irony

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CCSS.L.6.5A

A contrast between expectation and reality, often showing a difference between what is said and what is meant, is:

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Imagery

• Simile

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CCSS.L.8.5A

A figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things by saying one is the other, without “like” or “as,” is:

• Simile

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D