Literary devices Creative

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Literary Devices

Class objectives 

After this lesson you will recognise the following literary devices: 

1. onomatopoeia
   
2. Alliteration
   
3. Repetition
4. simile
5. metaphor
6. Personification
7. oxymoron -> ADD!!

Go online and find explanations and examples of these devices!

Add to page 21!!

Worksheet -> PG. 20, 21

Onomatopoeia examples: 

Alliteration examples:

Repetition examples: 

Worksheet -> PG. 20, 21

Simile examples: 

Metaphor examples:

Oxymoron examples: 

"Purple puppies like playing on the playground." This is an example of

1. personification
2. alliteration
3. onomatopoeia
4. oxymoron

“He was sweating like a racehorse.”

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. onomatopoeia
4. oxymoron?

When a word’s vocalization imitates a natural sound, as can be heard in the words murmur, buzz, and pop, what do we call that device?

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. onomatopoeia
4. hyperbole

these pictures are all 

examples of ...

the pictures shown before were all examples of

1. oxymoron
2. personication
3. metaphor
4. simile

"Life is a highway".

1. metaphor
2. simile

Assignment: Examples

Search for an example of the following literary devices .  For each provide the following: 1. the definition of the term (in Dutch), 2 an example, 3 explanation of where in the text it can be found AND what effect it has on the reader.

             simile                                                          metaphor                         

                            onomatopoeia                                          oxymoron

Assignment: Examples

Search for an example of the following literary devices .  For each provide the following: 1. the definition of the term (in Dutch), 2 an example, 3 explanation of where in the text it can be found AND what effect it has on the reader.

             simile                                                          metaphor                         

                            onomatopoeia                                          oxymoron

Review

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I now have a greater understanding or literary devices.

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