7th Grade Literary Devices

To give human characteristics to an inhuman thing

Shining, Shimmering, Splendid!

Words that are spelled like sounds

A humorous exaggeration

Repeated sounds at the beginning of words

Curious cats can catch acold

Who is the greatest basketball player of all time?

Blessing will die if shedoesn’t eat Hot Cheetos

The sequence of events in a story

The moral or central lesson of a piece of fiction

Smooth as a fresh jar of skippy

Hiccup!

My clock and Forrest Gumpboth spend a long time running. 

Don’t believe time is money, money istime. 

She is as busy as a bee. 

He is a walking dictionary. 

I'm so hot, I make a dragon want to retire

A reference to another text

A comparison using is, are or were

The sun smiled down on me. 

The moral of life lesson of a story 

Which of the following is an Allusion?

Reese Peanut Butter cups are my Achilles Heel.  

The trees danced back andforth in the wind. 

I haven't eaten since breakfast and I am literally starving

The main problem in the story

Gravity wants to bring me down

Which of the following is a SIMILE? 

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

A comparison using like or as

The perspective from which a story is told

Which of the following is an example of personification?

He’s a real Pinocchio.

Which of the following is NOT a metaphor?

Which of the following could be a THEME for a piece of writing?

Splat! The ball hit thewindow. 

I ate a mountain of icecream last night. 

The turning point or high point in a story

Pages and pages of prancing poetry. 

The time and place that a story takes place