Comprehension Skill: Literary Elements (Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration)

NameDateCOURSE: Destination Reading IVUNIT 13: Negative Peer Pressure:Resisting TroubleComprehension Skill: Literary Elements (Simile,Metaphor, Alliteration)Complete the following items as you work through the tutorial.1. Authors can use a variety ofto enhance a story. If you can recognize when an author isusing them, you’ll getout of whatLearningObjective:• Recognize theeffects of similes,metaphors, andalliteration in arealistic fictiontext.you read.2. A is a comparison between two different thingsused to create an interesting or unusual association.3. Similes often use the terms or as.© 2008 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.4. The simile “like a soaring eagle spreading its wings,” gives yourmore to work with.5. Similes give the reader an interesting betweentwo different things.6. Like a simile, a makes a connection betweentwo different things.7. A metaphor is an even more comparison than asimile.DestinationReading

NameDate8. In the phrase “Ray was a rampaging bull,” the metaphor doesn’t say he wasa bull, it says heabull.9. Alliteration is the of initial, or beginning,consonant sounds in a series of words.10. The phrase “ten tall trees” is an example of .11. Because of the repeating consonant, a phrase with alliteration has a verysound to it.12. It’s alliteration that makes it easy to rememberand let live.”, such as “the more the merrier” or “live© 2008 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.DestinationReading