Students complete nine sentences identifying devices in examples — hyperbole, personification, and hyperbole again. The matching activity pairs four sentences about howling wind, horse-eating comparisons, cereal sounds, and a homework mountain with their literary device labels.
Matching sentences to device labels across all six devices reinforces the distinctions between each type before students must identify them in full passage contexts.
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Literary Devices
Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1. "She runs faster than the speed of light" is an example of hyperbole because it uses extreme exaggeration.
2. "The river sang a gentle lullaby" uses personification by giving the river a human ability.
3. "My backpack weighs a ton" is not meant literally; it is an example of hyperbole.
4. "The snow was a white blanket covering the town" compares snow to a blanket, making it a metaphor.
5. "The bacon sizzled in the pan" contains the onomatopoeia word sizzled.
6. "Cool cats climbed the crooked climbing wall" repeats the /k/ sound, which is called alliteration.
7. "Her eyes sparkled like diamonds" uses simile because it compares using the word like.
8. Literary devices that compare things or exaggerate are called figurative language.
9. Authors use literary devices to create vivid images in the reader's mind.', a: 'mind'
Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1. Match each item to its correct answer.
"The wind howled all night long"
→ personification
hyperbole
"He eats like a horse"
→ simile
onomatopoeia
"Snap, crackle, pop went the cereal"
→ onomatopoeia
personification
"I have a mountain of homework"
→ hyperbole
simile
Literary Devices
★ Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1) "She runs faster than the speed of light" is an example of hyperbole because it uses extreme exaggeration.
2) "The river sang a gentle lullaby" uses personification by giving the river a human ability.
3) "My backpack weighs a ton" is not meant literally; it is an example of hyperbole.
4) "The snow was a white blanket covering the town" compares snow to a blanket, making it a metaphor.
5) "The bacon sizzled in the pan" contains the onomatopoeia word sizzled.
6) "Cool cats climbed the crooked climbing wall" repeats the /k/ sound, which is called alliteration.
7) "Her eyes sparkled like diamonds" uses simile because it compares using the word like.
8) Literary devices that compare things or exaggerate are called figurative language.
9) Authors use literary devices to create vivid images in the reader's mind.', a: 'mind'
★ Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1) Match each item to its correct answer.
"The wind howled all night long"
→ personification
hyperbole
"He eats like a horse"
→ simile
onomatopoeia
"Snap, crackle, pop went the cereal"
→ onomatopoeia
personification
"I have a mountain of homework"
→ hyperbole
simile
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