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Slide 1 - Diapositive

What literary devices can you name?

Slide 2 - Carte mentale

Some repetition
Simile: Comparison using 'like' or 'as'. 
                My love is like a red, red rose.
                His roar is as loud as a lion's
Metaphor: Comparison without 'like' or 'as'
                Time is money.
                We are a billion beatiful hearts

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Metonymy: Metonymy is a figure of speech in which an object or idea is                                    referred to by the name of something closely associated with it,                            as opposed to by its own name. Metonymy involves a word or                                  phrase substituting or standing in for another word or phrase.
    John works in Silicon Valley.
     I  am loyal to the Crown.
Personification: giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human                                         characteristics.
 The flower dances in the rain

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Irony:
Verbal irony: occurs when a speaker or narrator says one things while meaning the opposite.
“It is easy to stop smoking. I’ve done it many times.”

Situational irony: occurs when a situation turns out differently from what one would normally expect—though often the twist is oddly appropriate
A deep sea diver’s drowning in a bathtub is ironic.

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Tautology: expressing the same thing, an idea, or saying, two or more times.
“In my opinion, I think he is wrong”
“Bits and pieces”

Pleonasm: unneccesary repetition of a quality that is inseparable from the idea mentioned. Sometimes this is a mistake, in poetry, this is often on purpose
“White snow”
“They offered free gifts to us”

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Euphemism: when an expression loses its literal meaning and refers to something else, often in order to hide its unpleasantness
“Kick the bucket”
“Please sit on your hind-quarters”

Hyperbole: a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration. It may be used for either serious or comic effect.
“It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing jackets.”

Slide 7 - Diapositive

These high heels are killing me.

Slide 8 - Question ouverte

My uncle made it to Wall Street.
A
Personification
B
Pleonasm
C
Metonymy
D
Hyperbole

Slide 9 - Quiz

It’s déjà vu all over again!
A
Pleonasm
B
Tautology
C
Simile
D
Metaphor

Slide 10 - Quiz

I wandered lonely as a cloud.
A
Pleonams
B
Tautology
C
Simile
D
Metaphor

Slide 11 - Quiz

Whither wilt thou wander wayfarer.

Slide 12 - Question ouverte

The teenager’s stomach was a bottomless pit.

Slide 13 - Question ouverte

Let me tell you ‘bout the birds and the bees.

Slide 14 - Question ouverte

And it seems to me you lived your life, like a candle in the wind.

Slide 15 - Question ouverte

The man who used to live next door is a single bachelor.
A
Pleonasm
B
Hyperbole
C
Metaphor
D
Tautology

Slide 16 - Quiz

I’m so sad I’m drowning in tears.
A
Pleonasm
B
Hyperbole
C
Metaphor
D
Tautology

Slide 17 - Quiz