This document is a worksheet that asks students to identify 9 different literary devices based on their definitions. It then asks students to provide an example for each device. The literary devices are simile, hyperbole, metonymy, personification, allusion, metaphor, allegory, apostrophe, and synecdoche. Students are asked to write the name of the device next to an example they provide.

1. Name:_______________________________________ Date:___________
Literary Devices- Directions: Identify the literary term described in each sentence below.
____________________1. A comparison using the words like and as
____________________2. Attribution of personal qualities to non-living things or ideas
____________________3. Calling or talking to absent or dead person or idea
____________________4. To make a comparison or to suggest similarity directly
____________________5. Language that makes reference to a place, person, or something that
happened in history or in literature
____________________6. Language of objects parts used to represent the whole
____________________7. Language used for substitution for the name of something
____________________8. An exaggerated language used to emphasize with comical effect
____________________9. A story which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas
about human life, political or historical situation
Writing: Provide one example for each of the 9 figures of speech. Write the figure of speech in each item.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Simile Hyperbole Metonymy Personification Allusion
Metaphor Allegory Apostrophe Synecdoche