Literary Devices for 9th Graders

Literary Devices for 9th Graders

By Andrea Dubose

Poll

How comfortable are you with the literary devices we reviewed in yesterday's kahoot.

• I don't remember anything!

• I remember most things.

• I understood everything!

• I understood a good amount, but I still need to review

Round

Flat

Dynamic

Static​

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Let's determine the difference

Types of characters

complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader.

​Round character

two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work

Flat character

Flat and round

What are some examples

a type of character who remains largely the same throughout the course of the storyline

Static Character

a character who undergoes significant internal change throughout the course of a story.

Dynamic character

Dynamic and static

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Multiple Choice

What type of character am I?

Hi, in this last year, I have grown a lot. I learned how to be kinder to others. I used to bully people, but now I'd rather get to know others and understand their differences.

• Static

• Dynamic

• Round

• Flat

Multiple Choice

2 dimensional character

• Static

• dynamic

• round

• flat

Multiple Choice

Never changes throughout the story

• Static

• Flat

• round

• dynamic

reflects the writer's attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work

Tone

the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story.

Mood

Mood and Tone

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Multiple Choice

Authors set the tone by:

• using strong verbs

• involving the reader's senses

• the choice of setting, details, images, and words

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

How would you describe the mood of "Lamb to the Slaughter?"

• Suspenseful

• funny

• exciting

• sad

a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story.

Flashback

be a warning or indication of (a future event).

Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing and Flashback

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Multiple Choice

Jason and Jamie are eating out at a café in downtown Decatur. Jason is reminded of a cappuccino he had in Paris; he then tells Jamie about the time he went to the Eiffel Tower and had the best cappuccino of his life.

• Flashback

• foreshadowing

Multiple Choice

A man is about to give a speech to a large audience on biology. Suddenly, he remembers playing with frogs and toads in his backyard as a curious child

• Flashback

• Foreshadow

Multiple Choice

"I'd fight an army to get a taste of that red velvet cake," she said as a joke. Later that night, she and her sister fought for hours over the last slice of cake.

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

Literary Devices you've Never Heard of

Anthropomorphism

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​Anthropomorphism refers to something nonhuman behaving as human, while personification gives particular human traits to nonhuman or abstract things, or represents a quality or concept in human form.

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Anthropomorphism is a literary device that can be defined as a technique in which a writer ascribes human traits, ambitions, emotions, or entire behaviors to animals, non-human beings, natural phenomena, or objects.

Anthromorphism

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Literary devices

Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism is a literary device that can be defined as a technique in which a writer ascribes human traits, ambitions, emotions, or entire behaviors to animals, non-human beings, natural phenomena, or objects.

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Multiple Choice

• Personification

• Anthropomorphism

Multiple Choice

The leaves danced in the wind.

• Personification

• Anthropomorphism

Irony

There are different kinds of irony

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a figure of speech. The speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that contrasts with the literal or usual meaning of what he says.

Verbal Irony

the irony of something happening that is very different to what was expected

Situational Irony

Irony

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Dramatic Irony

a literary device by which the audience's or reader's understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters.

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