Literary Devices - 6th Grade Review

A comparison of two dissimilar things or ideas NOT using "like" or "as."

A repeated pattern in rhyming words.

Words, phrases, or lines that are repeated.

Using "like" or "as" to compare two dissimilar things or ideas.

Identify the Literary Device: 'It was so cold that all the fish moved south." - from an American folklore

Identify the Literary Device: "A narrow wind complains all day how someone treated him." - Emily Dickinson

Identify the Literary Device: "Some cause happiness whereover they go; others whenever they go." Oscar Wilde

Identify the Literary Device: "My solitude grew more and more obese, like a pig." - Mishima Yukio

Language that means exactly what it says.

When a word imitates the sound it represents.

Words that appeal to the senses.

An expression meaning something other than the literal meaning of the words.

Identify the Literary Device: "The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination." - Peter DeVries

Accented syllables that produce a distinct beat in a line of poetry.

Identify the Literary Device: "Men's words are bullets, ..." - George Savile

Language that is not meant to be taken literally.

Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman.

Identify the Literary Device: "He hears the parson pray and preach." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When words or lines end with the same sound.

A reference to a real or fictional person, place, or things.

The repetition of beginning sounds in words.

Extreme exaggeration.