Literary devices Creative

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Literary Devices

Goals 

After this lesson you will recognise the following literary devices: 

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. personification
4. onomatopoeia
5. oxymoron
6. hyperbole 
7. alliteration
8. irony 

“He was sweating like a racehorse.”

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. onomatopoeia
4. oxymoron

When a word’s vocalization imitates a natural sound, as can be heard in the words murmur, buzz, and pop, what do we call that device?

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. onomatopoeia
4. hyperbole

"Purple puppies like playing on the playground." This is an example of

1. personification
2. alliteration
3. onomatopoeia
4. oxymoron

Look at the following cartoon

The cartoon is an example of...

1. simile
2. personification
3. symbol
4. hyperbole

The irony is when an event or response occurs that is the _________ of what is expected.

1. opposite
2. similar
3. related to
4. quite similar

Foreshadowing is when we learn what will happen in the ______

1. past
2. present
3. never
4. future

this sentence is an example of:
"Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name".

1. oxymoron
2. onomatopoeia
3. personification
4. simile

these pictures are all 

examples of ...

the pictures shown before were all examples of

1. oxymoron
2. personication
3. metaphor
4. simile

"Life is a highway".

1. metaphor
2. simile

Let's get creative 

get your "Van Gogh" for the assignment  

remember this exercise?

Assignment: Doodling

Think of (or use Google) for an example of the following literary devices and create a doodle for each one. 

simile                                                          metaphor                                     personification

                            onomatopoeia                                          oxymoron

hyperbole                                                alliteration                                          irony 

Each doodle must be about 6x6cm