GRADE 7 LITERARY DEVICES | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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Foreshadowing is...

Important clues that an author drops to help the reader get ready for something later in a story

Personification is

giving an animal or object human-like characteristics

Irony is

a contrast between appearance and reality - or when one thing is expected to happen and the exact opposite happens instead

Look at the image and create a description with lots of detail. (imagery)

answers will vary

'The light of the fire is a sight' is an example of...

assonance

consonance

alliteration

free verse

'The music danced through the room and into Jason's ear. It whispered to him quietly, calling him outside to the school dance.' Identify the poetic device

Personification. Music is not a person. It doesn't dance or whisper.

'Tim the terrifying tiger,' is an example of...

imagery

symbol

alliteration

irony

The poem 'The Sea' by James Reeves, that we looked at in your LIP classes, is an example of

extended simile

free verse

hyperbole

extended metaphor

Look at the image and create a description with lots of detail. (imagery)

answers will vary

Hyperbole is ...

an exaggeration

an object, person, place or action that "stands for" or represents something else is called...

a symbol

'Go slow over the road' is an example of ...

consonance

hyperbole

simile

assonance

The words or phrases a writer uses to describe persons, objects, actions, feelings and ideas while appealing to the five senses is called ...

imagery

'I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse,' is an example of ...

a pun

alliteration

personication

hyperbole

Alliteration is...

the repetition of a sound at the beginning of two or more words that appear one after another

Look at the image and create a description with lots of detail. (imagery)

answers will vary

Bang! Crash! Zap! are examples of

Onomatopoeia

'The tall grass blew in the soft autumn breeze. Last night's rain glistened and shined in the morning sun.' This sentence is an example of

extended metaphor

imagery

alliteration

repetition