HoMS Literary Devices Review

This device uses purposeful exaggeration to show strong feeling or effect.

Name the literary device being used: "There were big green apples hard as knees" (Cisneros 95).

Name the literary device being used: “I like coffee, I like tea. I like the boys and the boys like me” (Cisneros 13).

This figure of speech compares things using the words "like" or "as."

____ uses the repetition of consonant sounds at the END or MIDDLE of nearby words.

This figure of speech makes a comparison of 2 different things by saying one IS the other.

Name the literary device being used: “His feet were fat and doughy like thick tamales…” (Cisneros 39).

With this device, a word mimics the sound it is refering to.

This literary devices uses something to represent a greater idea.

____ uses the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.

Name the literary device being used: “Cathy who is queen of cats has cats…” (Cisneros 13).

Name the literary device being used: "Rachel’s one foot with a girl’s grey sock and a lady’s high heel” (Cisneros 40).

____ uses the repetition of consonant sounds at the START of nearby words.

This literary device appeals to our senses to help us visualize what is happening in the text.

Name the literary device being used: "[Diseases] pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone" (Cisneros 59).

Name the literary device being used: "The boys and the girls live in separate worlds" (Cisneros 8).

Name the literary device being used: "Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor" (Cisneros 9).

Name the literary device: “It's small and red with tight steps in front... Bricks are crumbling..." (Cisneros 4).

This device gives inhuman things human characteristics.

Name the literary device being used: “...the rope tick-ticking...” (Cisneros 28).