Q1W7D2A2 - LITERARY DEVICES

PE 1 - HYPERBOLE

• Attributing human characteristics to objects, ideas, animals or nature

• A language that describes something as better as or worse than it really is

• A comparison between two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’

• A direct comparison between two things.

Personification

• Attributing human characteristics to objects, ideas, animals or nature.

• A direct comparison between two things

• They use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think.

• Repetition of words, phrases or structures.

Irony

• A language that describes something as better as or worse than it really is

• Repetition of words, phrases or structures.

• They use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think

• Attributing human characteristics to objects, ideas, animals or nature

Repetition

• A comparison between two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’

• Repetition of words, phrases or structures.

• Words that imitate sounds

• A direct comparison between two things.

Simile

• Words that imitate sounds

• Attributing human characteristics to objects, ideas, animals or nature

• They use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think.

• A comparison between two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’

Metaphor

• A direct comparison between two things.

• They use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think.

• Attributing human characteristics to objects, ideas, animals or nature

• A comparison between two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’

Assonance

• Repetition of words, phrases or structures.

• The use words that have the same or similar vowel sound near one another

• A direct comparison between two things.

• They use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think.

Alliteration

• Repetition of the initial consonant sound

• Repetition of words, phrases or structures.

• The use words that have the same or similar vowel sound near one another

• A direct comparison between two things

. Onomatopoeia

• Words that imitate sounds

• Attributing human characteristics to objects, ideas, animals or nature

• A direct comparison between two things

• Words that imitate sounds

In the darkness, the wind and rain grew louder and seemed closer.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simila

• Metaphor