Literary Device Review & Playlist

LITERARY DEVICES

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Open Ended

What are the types of literary devices?

Match

Match the terms with the correct definitions.

• 
  the series of conflicts or struggles that build a story toward a climax.

• a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.

• the most exciting part of the story, where a lot of major action happens

• the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot

• End of the story where loose ends are tied up

Rising Action

Exposition

Climax

foreshadowing

Resolution

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  Rising Action

• Exposition

• Climax

• foreshadowing

• Resolution

Multiple Choice

Which literary device is a passage or sentence that changes the reader’s opinion about the character, usually by revealing the character’s goals, values, or feelings?

• Inference

• Characterization

• Dramatic Irony

• Metaphor

Symbolism

what does that mean?

Symbol-basic concept

any image or thing that stands for something else

Poll

When you see <------ it makes you think of...

• Stop

• Temptation

• Love

• Peace

Poll

When you see <------ it makes you think of...

• Stop

• Temptation

• Love

• Peace

Poll

When you see <------ it makes you think of...

• Stop

• Temptation

• Love

• Peace

Poll

When you see <------ it makes you think of...

• Stop

• Temptation

• Love

• Peace

Symbol as a literary device

A symbol is literary device that contains several layers of meaning, often concealed at first sight, and is representative of several other aspects, concepts or traits than those that are visible in the literal translation alone. Symbol is using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.

Symbol, it boils down to...

an object that stands for itself AND a greater idea; it creates a direct meaningful link between an object and an abstract idea

Color

What do you think the following colors might symbolize?

Poll

Red

• angry

• mean

• ugly

• jealous

Poll

Green

• angry

• mean

• ugly

• jealous

Poll

Blue

• angry

• calm

• ugly

• jealous

Multiple Choice

What type of Imagery is displayed in the picture?

• Audio

• Visual

• Tactile

• Gustatory

• Olfactory

Multiple Choice

Identify the type of Imagery.

• Olfactory

• Audio

• Visual

• Tactile

• Gustatory

Multiple Choice

Identify the type of Imagery.

• Audio

• Visual

• Olfactory

• Gustatory

• Tactile

Multiple Choice

Identify the type of Imagery.

• Visual

• Tactile

• Olfactory

• Gustatory

• Audio

Multiple Choice

Identify the type of Imagery.

• Tactile

• Gustatory

• Audio

• Visual

• Olfactory

Fill in the Blank

What Imagery comes to your mind when I say the words 'splash', 'gurgling' and 'buzz'

Multiple Select

Which words describe tactile imagery?

• silk

• feathery

• rough

• cute

Fill in the Blank

Identify the Imagery...

Poetic Devices

Poets are precise about their word choice and arrangement so their works have maximum impact. The ways that poets arrange words are called poetic devices.

We will go over some poetic devices--some may be new to you and some may be review for you

Parts of a Poem

• Stanza is a series of lines that are grouped together (kind of like a paragraph in a short story)

• There are different kinds of stanzas: 2 lines=couplet, 3 lines=tercet, 4 lines=quatrain, 5 lines=quintet, 6 lines=sestet

Devices for Sound

Alliteration-Repetition of the first letter/sound in nearby words

Assonance- the repetition of the sound of a vowel

Consonance-repetition of consonant sounds

Rhyme

Internal rhyme-Internal rhyme is rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines of poetry, instead of at the ends of lines

Slant rhyme-words that have similar, but not identical sounds

Rhyme Scheme-the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem

Devices for Meaning

• Hyperbole-An outrageous exaggeration used for effect

• Allusion-is a reference to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar

• Irony-the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant

• Repetition-The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for a certain effect

Imagery-Descriptive language which appeals to the five senses

Personification-A form of metaphor in which an inanimate object, animal or idea is given human characteristics

Symbol-A person, place event or object that has meaning in itself, but suggests other meaning as well

Figurative Language-The use of words outside of their literal or usual way.

Theme -the message or moral crafted by the author

Simile-Comparison of unlike things using "like" or "as"

Metaphor-Comparison of different things not using "like" or "as"

Identifying Metaphors

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Multiple Choice

What two things are compared in this metaphor? What do they have in common? I run. I’m a hawk, my talons holding the sky

• a hawk and the sky; they are both in the air

• the person talking and a hawk; speed & flight - the speaker feels like she's moving so fast that she's flying

• talons and claws; they both scratch

Multiple Choice

What two things are compared in this metaphor? What do they have in common? Loneliness is the red sound of your sleeping heart.

• Red and sound; they both make the speaker sad

• loneliness and the sound of a "sleeping heart"; they both are still and maybe sad or unable to feel

• loneliness and sleep; they both happen when you're alone

Multiple Choice

What else BESIDES light and learning are compared in this metaphor: The wound is where the light enters you.

• a wound and any kind of problem or trouble

• a wound and a burn

• a wound and entering

Multiple Choice

What is light compared to in this metaphor: The wound is where the light enters you.

• learning, improving, getting better

• darkness and anger

• entering

Open Ended

Try writing your own metaphor!

Copy & paste this sentence frame into your response:

When I __VERB__, I am ______

EAMPLE: When I run, I am wind. (Don't use RUN or WIND in yours.)

Multiple Choice

Why would a writer use figurative language?

• to make the audience use their imaginations and emotions

• to make the audience become confused

• to make their work lengthier

• to add some personality to their writing

Fill in the Blank

How are similes and metaphors different?

​How was figurative language used in this stanza? Cite textual evidence.

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What is the central idea of the stanza?

​How was figurative language used in this stanza? Cite textual evidence.

​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

What is the central idea of the stanza?

​How was figurative language used in this stanza? Cite textual evidence.

​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

What is the central idea of the stanza?

​How was figurative language used in this stanza? Cite textual evidence.

​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

What is the central idea of the stanza?

Lesson 2: Craft and Structure in Poetry

What is the theme of the poem?

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How do you know?

Lesson 2: Craft and Structure in Poetry

Which statement describes the use of personification in the poem?

A. Animals were given human characteristics

B. The aging of non-human elements is described

C. The landscape is described as though it were a person.

D. Natural phenomena are given human characteristics

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Lesson 2: Craft and Structure in Poetry

Which statement describes the use of personification in the poem?

A. Animals were given human characteristics

B. The aging of non-human elements is described

C. The landscape is described as though it were a person.

D. Natural phenomena are given human characteristics

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Multiple Choice

Which line from the poem BEST supports your answer to Part A?

• "The sun is a huntress young..."

• "And leaves not a bush of cloud..."

• "Flashing his baleful eyes..."

• "He builds him a crimson nest."

Simile VS Metaphor

They are BOTH comparisons.

Similes use "LIKE" or "AS." Be careful, though. The presence of these two words does NOT automatically make a simile. There needs to be a COMPARISON between TWO SIMILAR things.

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Metaphors are DIRECT comparisons. They compare two things by saying something is something it is not. Often, when students find a literary element they cannot identify, it's a metaphor. ​

Multiple Choice

A metaphor is...

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• A direct comparison WITHOUT "like" or "as"

• A scary monster

• An exaggeration

Adding Alliteration

Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter sound across the start of several words in a line of text.

Open Ended

Choose 2 of the following letters,

A, K, G, N, Ch, T, R, F

Make an alliterative statement using each letter you chose. Your alliteration should be at least 3 words and your statement must be a complete sentence.

Developing Imagery & Metaphors

Imagery is visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. A Metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Open Ended

Choose a sentence below and rewrite it into one or several setences that recreates the scene more vividly. Consider your word choice and the use of senses (smell, touch, sight, taste, and sound) to describe the subject. Feel free to invent details within your revised sentence(s).

Example... "She was stuck at home and couldn't go anywhere."

Answer... "She was a prisoner in her own home".

1.The information was great news that Jessica was glad to hear.

2.Timothy was happy for a long time after he bought his car.

3.The kids would play tag in the field after church during the summer.

Drafting Couplets

A Couplet is two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

Example... "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." - A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespear)

Open Ended

Read the first line of the couplets below. Create a second line for the couplet that ends in a rhyme.

1. "It's hard to see the butterfly..."

2."His red sports car is just a dream..."

3. "Soon the rain falls on the ground..."

Multiple Select

Tick ALL the Similes

• That car is a beast!

• My bank account is like a desert.

• I am as happy as a clam!

• Do you like anime?

Multiple Select

Tick ALL the Metaphors

• My sister is taller than me!

• Boba is my life!

• The cinema is cold.

• This photo is gold!

Metaphors help writers express feelings more effectively.

Kisses are the flowers of love in bloom.

She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show.

The clouds sailed across the sky.

Her eyes were fireflies.

David is a worm for what he did to Shelia.

Here are some more advanced Metaphors:

Thy tones are silver melted into sound.

So I sit spinning still, round this decaying form, the fine threads of rare and subtle thought.

Still sits the school-house by the road, a ragged beggar sunning.

Blind fools of fate and slaves of circumstance, / Life is a fiddler, and we all must dance.

Metaphors can be used in films and photograghs as well:

What is the comparison?

What is the message?

Personification...

• another type of comparison

• person means human

• "ify"-suffix meaning to cause, to be made

• Thus, personify means to be made a person...

5 Methods to Personify an Object or Animal

• gender

• emotions

• character traits

• actions

• body parts

Multiple Select

What is true about personification? check all that apply.

• Authors use it make their writing harder to understand.

• Personification is used to show how objects are different from one another.

• Personification means to make things like soda cans and trees appear human.

• Personification is different from similes and metaphors.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence uses an example of PERSONIFICATION?

• The town was damaged by the tornado.

• People hide in cellars during a tornado watch.

• The tornado enjoyed herself as she ate the town.

• Be careful! It's windy outside.

Personification

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Simile

A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Similes differ from metaphors by highlighting the similarities between two things using words such as "like" or "as".

Metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between two different ideas.

Hyperbole

Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. 

Open Ended

Tell me three or more things that you learned. It does not matter what figurtive language it is.

Poll

Tell me if you still need more practice with the languages that we learned today or if you are fine.

• I need more help

• I am fine