
Literary Devices
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English
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7th - 8th Grade
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Heidi Sawitzke
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8 Slides • 9 Questions
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Literary Devices
A Review
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Poll
How comfortable are you will the literary devices we learned the last couple of weeks? (Simile, Metaphor, Personification etc.)
Not comfortable at all
Sort of comfortable
Comfortable
This it is easy!
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Simile
She was a smart as a fox.
He was like a bull
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Multiple Select
Check all of the following which are similes.
He ran as fast as a cheetah
They were clowns
She liked ice cream
She climbed like a mountain goat.
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Metaphor
Don't trust him, he is a fox in hen's clothing.
She's a doll.
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Multiple Select
Check all of the following which are metaphors
They were clowns
She ate like a bird
She's a snake
Like a wolf, he cried into the night.
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Personification
The desk was stubborn and refused to move.
The scale lies.
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Open Ended
Create your own personification.
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Alliteration
He has hot hamburgers
Snakes slither sideways
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Multiple Choice
Which of the following is an alliteration?
Kids are silly and witty
Cars are like trucks but smaller
Apples are awesome
Be home by midnight
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Homophones
Aunt and ant
Blew and Blue
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Multiple Select
Which of the following are homophones
Here/Hear
Toe/Tow
Car/Card
Sea/See
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Oxymoron
Jumbo Shrimp
Escaped Prisoner
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Fill in the Blanks
Pretty ugly is an example of a
Type answer...
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Hyperbole
She was so shiny she looked just like a star
I am so tired I am going to sleep for a thousand years!
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Open Ended
Write your own hyperbole!
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Poll
How comfortable are you with the literary devices now? Do you think you could find them in a short story?
I would need help
Maybe
Most of them
No problem!
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A Review
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