Literary Devices Lesson

LITERARY DEVICES

by Raquel Silva

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Objectives: 

After going through this module, you are expected to: 

1. Identify literary devices in text samples

2. Use literary devices and technique to craft short prose  forms and poetry

3. Compose forms of literary writing

​REVIEW:

What common or familiar literary devices do you know?

Multiple Choice

Your explanation is as clear as mud.

• SIMILE

• METAPHOR

• PERSONIFICATION

• HYPERBOLE

Multiple Choice

His heart of stone surprised me.

• SIMILE

• METAPHOR

• PERSONIFICATION

• HYPERBOLE

Multiple Choice

A bell clangs in the night.

• METAPHOR

• ONOMATOPOEIA

• PERSONIFICATION

• HYPERBOLE

Multiple Choice

You're as light as a feather.

• METAPHOR

• PERSONIFICATION

• HYPERBOLE

• ONOMATOPOEIA

Multiple Choice

The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.

• METAPHOR

• HYPERBOLE

• PERSONIFICATION

• ONOMATOPOEIA

​What have you noticed in this statement?

Open Ended

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

1. ALLITERATION

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he repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables ​

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Let's Try !

A good cook could cook as many cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies. What initial consonant sound is being repeated?

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Let's Try!

A big bug bit the little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug back.

What initial consonant sound is being repeated?

Open Ended

NEXT:

What vowel sound is being repeated?

She seems to beam rays of sunshine with her eyes of green.

​2. ASSONANCE

​The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants; sometimes it is called vowel rhyme.

Open Ended

Let's Try!

Morning was cold and with a bold statement.

The morning dew was wet and set

What vowel sound is being produced?

Open Ended

The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain.

What vowel sound is being produced? Write the words with the same vowel sound.

Open Ended

NEXT:

The Little Red Riding hood slept soundly in the bed.

What consonant sound is being produced?

​CONSONANCE

The repeated consonance sounds that can be​ anywhere in the words.

Open Ended

LET'S TRY!

a bond that transends the beyond.

What words that have consonant sounds are used in the statement?

Open Ended

O Captain! my Captain! 

                                                    (O Captain! My Captain!)

What word is being repeated?

​REPETITION

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Is a literary device that involves using the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing or speech.

Open Ended

“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”    

                                             (Back to the Future)

What word is being repeated?

​Listening Activity :

Listen to the song that will be played, write the literary devices used.

Open Ended

What are the literary devices used in the song? Write the words then identify the literary devices.

Poll

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