How do I print them double-sided?

Double-sided, flip on the long edge. Every front sheet is followed by its own already-mirrored back sheet, so print them in the order they come and every answer lands on its own card.

Can I edit the cards?

Yes, and that is half the point. Once you own the deck, the "Buy & edit" button here opens all 111 cards in the free flash card maker on this site — reword a definition, delete the ones you do not teach, add your own, and print at anything from two to nine cards a page, rather than the fixed eight of the PDF.

Can I print a set for every student?

Yes. Personal and classroom licence: unlimited printing, every class you teach, every year you teach it. It does not cover reselling the file or passing it on to a colleague.

What if I find a card that is wrong?

Tell us and we fix it, and we publish what changed. We have withdrawn a whole deck from sale for being out of date rather than quietly patch it.

Do I need an account?

No. $2.99 at Stripe, the file downloads on the way back, and the deck stays unlocked in this browser.

Printable flash cards

111 Literary Devices & Figurative Language flashcards, ready to print. $2.99, once.

One payment buys the deck twice over: the printable PDF and every card unlocked to play online. Eight to a sheet, cut guides on every card, and the answer sheet already mirrored so a long-edge duplex print puts every answer on the back of its own question. 33 pages, US Letter, black and white. 6–12.

Both halves, one price. The printable of this deck sells on its own for $1.29, and unlocking all 111 cards to play is $2.99. Bought one at a time that is $4.28. Here they are the same $2.99 purchase, so you save $1.29 — and there is one receipt to keep instead of two.

Includes every card unlocked to play online — $4.28 bought separately. One payment, no account, no renewal.

Same price, opens in the editor. Reword any card, add your own, print it your way.

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33 pages, and the backs are already right

Every front sheet is followed by its own back sheet with the rows reversed. Print double-sided, flip on the long edge, and answer number 7 is behind question number 7. Print a deck you built yourself, flip on the short edge, and every answer lands on the wrong card — which nobody finds out until sixty cards have been cut apart.

111 cards — counted out of the file, not rounded up
Eight cards a sheet, with cut guides
US Letter PDF, black and white, photocopier-friendly
Print a set per student, every class, every year

A specialist read every one of these 111 cards

Not a sample. Every card. That audit covered 5,420 cards across 30 decks and it changed things: every physics formula was rewritten to carry the conditions that make it true, and one deck on US civics was withdrawn from sale entirely rather than patched, because it taught a superseded edition of the citizenship test. You cannot buy that deck here. That is what checking looks like when somebody is accountable for the cards.

What 111 printed cards do that a screen does not

A phone deck is one card at a time. A printed deck is a pile you can split: the ones you know, the ones you nearly know, and the ones you keep missing. That third pile is the entire study session, and it is the thing a scrolling app hides from you.

Print once, use all year. The licence covers a set per student, every class, every year.
No device, no login, no data. Works in a cover lesson, on a bus, or at a kitchen table. 6–12, filed under english & reading.
Change what you disagree with. Every card loads into the free maker on this site. Reword it, drop it, add your own, reprint.

Here are the first 30 cards, written out

Check them against your own textbook before you spend anything. If you do not like how they are worded, do not buy the deck — that is what this list is for.

Metaphor: Calls one thing another directly: the classroom was a beehive at recess.
Simile: Compares using like or as: the lake was as flat as a sheet of glass.
Personification: Gives human traits to non-human things: the wind rattled the windows angrily.
Hyperbole: Deliberate exaggeration: this backpack weighs a tonne.
Understatement: Says less than is meant: after the blizzard, a bit of snow fell.
Alliteration: Repeated beginning sounds: six swift swallows swooped south.
Assonance: Repeated vowel sounds inside words: the green sea sleeps.
Consonance: Repeated consonant sounds inside or ending words: the black rock cracked.
Onomatopoeia: A word that imitates a sound: the bacon sizzled and the kettle hissed.
Imagery: Language aimed at the five senses: damp leaves, cold air, woodsmoke.
Symbolism: An object standing for a larger idea: a single green shoot for hope.
Allegory: A whole story whose characters stand for ideas, as in a fable about ants.
Irony: A gap between what is expected and what is real, in three kinds: verbal, situational and dramatic.
Verbal irony: Saying the opposite of what is meant: lovely weather, during a downpour.
Situational irony: The outcome flips expectation: the swim coach who cannot float.
Dramatic irony: The reader knows what a character does not, like a coming storm.
Sarcasm: Verbal irony sharpened to mock: nice catch, after a dropped ball.
Foreshadowing: An early hint of what is to come: dark clouds massing in chapter one.
Flashback: A scene that jumps back in time to show an earlier event.
Suspense: The tension of not yet knowing: footsteps in an empty corridor.
Mood: The feeling a text gives the reader: a still, frosty morning feels calm.
Tone: The writer's attitude to the subject: playful, solemn, or urgent.
Theme: The idea a text explores: friendship costs something.
Motif: An image that recurs and builds meaning, like rain through a novel.
Allusion: A brief reference to a known text or event: an Achilles heel.
Idiom: A phrase whose meaning is not literal: it is raining cats and dogs.
Cliche: A phrase worn out by overuse: as cold as ice.
Pun: A joke on a word's double meaning or on two words that sound alike: the baker kneaded a break.
Oxymoron: Two contradictory words paired: deafening silence, bittersweet.
Paradox: A statement that seems to contradict itself yet holds truth.

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The printable and every card unlocked to play — $4.28 bought separately, $2.99 together. One payment, no renewal, no account. Or take every deck: Study Pack, $11.99 a month — all 78 decks, all 7,178 cards, every printable, no ads. 5 single decks costs more than one month.

Includes every card unlocked to play online — $4.28 bought separately. One payment, no account, no renewal.

Same price, opens in the editor. Reword any card, add your own, print it your way.

Play it online insteadThe first 30 cards are free to play, with no account.Study Pack — $11.99/monthAll 78 decks and every printable.

Questions

How do I print them double-sided?: Double-sided, flip on the long edge. Every front sheet is followed by its own already-mirrored back sheet, so print them in the order they come and every answer lands on its own card.
Can I edit the cards?: Yes, and that is half the point. Once you own the deck, the "Buy & edit" button here opens all 111 cards in the free flash card maker on this site — reword a definition, delete the ones you do not teach, add your own, and print at anything from two to nine cards a page, rather than the fixed eight of the PDF.
Can I print a set for every student?: Yes. Personal and classroom licence: unlimited printing, every class you teach, every year you teach it. It does not cover reselling the file or passing it on to a colleague.
What if I find a card that is wrong?: Tell us and we fix it, and we publish what changed. We have withdrawn a whole deck from sale for being out of date rather than quietly patch it.
Do I need an account?: No. $2.99 at Stripe, the file downloads on the way back, and the deck stays unlocked in this browser.