Literary Devices Worksheet

Get into groups of 3 or 4 students and as a group, select three of the literary
devices below that you feel that you know best and for each device come up
with three different sentences that provide an example of that device.

For example, if you wanted to do hyperbole, you could write:

“Upon seeing the horror movie, the boy’s eyes were the size of dinner
plates.”

Alliteration Consonance Personification

Allusion Flashback Satire
Analogy Foreshadowing Simile
Anthropomorphism Hyperbole Situational Irony
Antithesis Metaphor Symbolism
Archetype Onomatopoeia Understatement
Assonance Oxymoron Verbal Irony
Dramatic Irony Paradox

 Literary Device 1: ______________________

o Example 1.1: _____________________________________
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o Example 1.2: _____________________________________
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o Example 1.3: _____________________________________
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 Literary Device 2: ______________________

o Example 2.1: _____________________________________
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 o Example 2.2: _____________________________________
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o Example 2.3: _____________________________________
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 Literary Device 3: ______________________

o Example 3.1: _____________________________________
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o Example 3.2: _____________________________________
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o Example 3.3: _____________________________________
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