Literary Devices and Figurative Language
Authored by Sarah Williams
English
8th Grade
CCSS covered
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
This house is as clean as a whistle.
simile
metaphor
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which type of figurative language is used in this sentence?
"Ugh, 3 o'clock is NEVER going to get here!"
idiom
hyperbole
metaphor
personification
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The snow danced around in the wind.
metaphor
personification
simile
Tags
CCSS.L.6.5A
4.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A literary device could be......
Foreshadowing
Orientation
Flashback
Resolution
Tags
CCSS.L.8.6
CCSS.L.9-10.6
CCSS.W.7.2D
CCSS.W.8.2D
CCSS.L.7.6
5.
DRAG AND DROP QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
I'm so upset. I could cry a river.
This statement is an example of (a)
hyperbole
oxymoron
simile
paradox
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
6.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Match the following
text evidence
an expression that has a different meaning from the literal meaning of its individual words. “I’m on top of the world!”
simile
a comparison of two unlikely things in which the author describes a person using words, but it does not use like or as “She is a ray of sunshine.”
word choice
the author’s thoughtful use of precise vocabulary to fully convey meaning to the reader
metaphor
a comparison of two things that are essentially different, usually using the words like or as
idiom
paraphrased or directly quoted detail(s) from a text that supports a reader’s claim, thought, inference, or analysis about the text
Tags
CCSS.L.8.6
CCSS.L.9-10.6
CCSS.W.7.2D
CCSS.W.8.2D
CCSS.W.9-10.2D
7.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Match the following figurative language examples
I could stare into your eyes as a thousand years come and go.
Personification
Within the town of Buffalo Are men like ants they worry to and fro,
Hyperbole
Forward still, though behind I heard the moaning and the murmur of the sea.
Imagery
Endless wealth held out its arms to me.
Simile
Time is a green orchard.
Metaphor
Tags
CCSS.L.3.5A
CCSS.RL.3.4
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