Read through the literary devices list in the back of your booklet.
After studying the list, read the following lines and choose the correct literary device
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This lesson contains 18 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slide.
Lesson duration is: 30 min
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Literature
Read through the literary devices list in the back of your booklet.
After studying the list, read the following lines and choose the correct literary device
Slide 1 - Slide
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;
A
repetition
B
assonance
C
alliteration
D
personification
Slide 2 - Quiz
If I pass during some nocturnal blackness, mothy and warm, When the hedgehog travels furtively over the lawn,
A
repetition
B
simile
C
euphemism
D
hyperbole
Slide 3 - Quiz
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
A
enjambments
B
personification
C
hyperbole
D
rhetoric question
Slide 4 - Quiz
How cruel is the story of Eve, What responsibility it has In history For misery.
A
consonance
B
metaphor
C
personification
D
sonnet
Slide 5 - Quiz
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more.”
A
alliteration
B
hyperbole
C
enjambments
D
irony
Slide 6 - Quiz
you couldn’t catch a chipmunk if all its legs were broken and it was glued to the palm of your hand.
A
repetition
B
consonance
C
irony
D
hyperbole
Slide 7 - Quiz
When the wind blows the water white and black. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
A
assonance
B
consonance
C
hyperbole
D
irony
Slide 8 - Quiz
A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.
A
simile
B
metaphor
C
hyperbole
D
understatement
Slide 9 - Quiz
we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life’s not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
A
simile
B
metaphor
C
irony
D
hyperbole
Slide 10 - Quiz
And so today, my world it smiles Your hand in mine, we walk the miles,
A
personification
B
repetition
C
simile
D
understatement
Slide 11 - Quiz
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
A
simile
B
metaphor
C
understatement
D
hyperbole
Slide 12 - Quiz
Love is a song that never ends One simple theme repeating Like the voice of a heavenly choir Love’s sweet music flows on
A
metaphor
B
simile
C
hyperboly
D
irony
Slide 13 - Quiz
Write down your own example of: Understatement
Slide 14 - Open question
Describe in your own words: Rhetoric question
Slide 15 - Open question
Explain in your own words: Imagery
Slide 16 - Open question
Explain what this metaphor means: "He’s buried in a sea of paperwork."
Slide 17 - Open question
Explain the simile in your own words: "Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on."