Recap Literary devices

Lesson goals


What are the literary
devices
 in poems/novels/plays? 
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Lesson goals


What are the literary
devices
 in poems/novels/plays? 

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Alliteration - FIRST CONSONANTS of stressed meaningful words are the same 

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers 

 busy as bee

 leave in the lurch 

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Repetition - using the same words or sentence more than once

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A metaphor - a comparison WITHOUT as or like  

He is the black sheep in the family

She is England's rose

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A simile - a comparison WITH as or like 


My love is like a red, red rose; She sings like a nightingale.

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Personification - to attribute personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human; or the representation of an abstract quality in human form .

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A stanza - a unified group of lines in poetry. Such a group may consist of any number of lines. 

Most common are: couplet (two lines); tercet (three lines); quatrain (4 lines), sestet (6 lines, usually two tercets or three couplets) and octave (8 lines, usually two quatrains) 

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Hyperbole - an exaggerated statement that's not meant to be taken literally by the reader. It is often used for comedic effect and/or emphasis. 

"I’m so hungry I could eat a horse." The speaker will not literally eat an entire horse but it emphasizes how starved the speaker feels. 

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A symbol - something in a story or poem that literally is what it is and stands for something else 


a rose often symbolizes love;

 a dove often symbolizes peace 

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Onomatopoeia - a word that sounds like its meaning 


cuckoo, sizzle, buzz, zip

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Oxymoron
combining words with opposite meanings (creates dramatic effect and makes readers wonder how the two could be combined)
Awfully good examples of oxymoron :) 
  • eloquent silence
  • Loving hate

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Imagery
author provokes sensory details through the use of descriptive language

  • The sunset was the most gorgeous they’d ever seen; the clouds were edged with pink and gold.
  • The familiar tang of his grandmother’s cranberry sauce reminded him of his youth.

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consonance
a series of words (or close together) that have the same consonant sound

Toss the glass, boss.
It will creep and beep while you sleep.

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assonance
a series of words (or close together) that have the same vowel sound

Do good have good (Repetition of the /oo/ vowel sound)
No pain, no gain (Repetition of the /ai/ vowel sound)

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Note that these are sound techniques and therefore may not be reflected in spelling, i.e. “do you like blue” is also considered assonance

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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

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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
simile

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How cruel is the story of Eve,
What responsibility it has
In history
For misery.
A
consonance
B
metaphor
C
personification
D
sonnet

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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

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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

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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

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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
oxymoron

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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

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And so today, my world it smiles
Your hand in mine, we walk the miles,
A
personification
B
repetition
C
simile
D
consonance

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“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
A
simile
B
metaphor
C
enjambement
D
hyperbole

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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

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Explain what this metaphor means:
"He’s buried in a sea of paperwork."

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Explain the simile in your own words:
"Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on."

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Lesson goals
  • What are the literary devices in poems/novels/plays?
  • Can you name one? Can you give an example? 

  • Which literary devices can you find in these two poems? 
1- Vegetarians - R. McGough An example? 
2- Incident - Norman MacCraig An example? 

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