Students must learn to identify an author's use of literary devices as they read. This skill is key not only for comprehension, but also for use during state testing (they love these questions!). This will absolutely assist your kiddos in their practice, and mastery of, close reading!This chart covers some of the most basic literary devices utilized by authors: Personification, Hyperbole, Repetition, Foreshadowing, Allusion. The teacher will choose any fictional text, model an example, then al