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Literary Devices

Literary Devices. Yes, title your notes this. Style. Style is the way a writer uses language. Every writer has a specific style that they use when they write. Style of an author can be sarcastic, humorous, serious, depressing, etc.

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Literary Devices

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  1. Literary Devices Yes, title your notes this.

  2. Style • Style is the way a writer uses language. • Every writer has a specific style that they use when they write. • Style of an author can be sarcastic, humorous, serious, depressing, etc. • EX. Dr. Seuss’ style follows that of rhyming and using silly words that don’t make sense, and Hemmingway’s style is very plain and minimal. What you will learn about all falls under the author’s style. Oooh la la!

  3. Figures of Speech • Figures of speech are expressions that that are not literally true but suggest similarities between (usually) unrelated things. • Ex. “He was tied up in traffic.” • “The check bounced.” • “I sat at the foot of the bed.” Sound familiar? Mmmmm, maybe like an idiom, simile or metaphor? Hmmmmmm……

  4. Similes • Similes are figures of speech that use a word of comparison such as: • Like • As • Than • Resembles • EX. His hands were as cold AS ice. • He eats LIKE a pig. • His laugh RESEMBLES that of a dog barking.

  5. Metaphors • Metaphors are figures of speech that compare two unlike things WITHOUT using comparison words. (It is what it is). • EX. He is a pig. • She is a rotten skunk! • That teacher’s heart is made of stone. An extended metaphor is when the author extends the comparison as far as they want to (goes from a sentence to a paragraph, an entire, poem, etc).

  6. Personification • Personification speaks of a non-human or inanimate thing as if it had life-like qualities. • EX. A falling leaf danced on the breeze. • The train eats up the miles. • The truck guzzles gas. • The sun smiled on our barbeque.

  7. Symbols • Symbols are present in literature CONSTANTLY. • In literature, symbols can be people, places, or events that have meaning in themselves but that also have another, deeper meaning. Remember allegory? • EX. In Moby Dick, the whale represented evil in society. • In Algernon, the references made of the Garden of Eden represented Charlie’s intelligence. • The dove carrying an olive branch symbolizes peace.

  8. Irony • Irony has 3 styles: • Dramatic Irony-where you know what is happening but the character(s) doesn’t. (Truman show?) • Situational Irony-where you are expecting something to happen, but the opposite happens (you are surprised). (Pirates of the Caribbean?) • Verbal Irony-when we say something but we mean something else. • EX: “Miss Gaffney! I got detention today.” • “Awesome!”

  9. Paradox • A paradox is an expression of two contradictory ideas that reveals a truth. • Ex: • 1) “It is cruel to be kind” • 2) "War is peace.""Freedom is slavery.""Ignorance is strength."(George Orwell, 1984)

  10. Juxtapose • To place more than one thing side by side in order to compare/contrast them, or for an interesting effect.

  11. Imagery • Imagery is language that creates word pictures and appeals to the 5 senses: • Sight, touch, sound, smell, taste. Good writers can write using language that makes the reader really feel as though they are there, experiencing the event. EX. As soon as he cracked open the jellybean in his mouth, he immediately had a rush of flavor of fresh pencil shavings on the back of his tastebuds. His mouth took on a chalky feel to it as he fought the urge to gag.

  12. Dialect • Dialect is a way of speaking that is characteristic of the particular place or group of people. • EX. “Y’all come back!” • “Bawston is the best!” • “Fo sho!” • “Dat bum wanted me to take him and • huh all da way to Noo Joisey.”

  13. Epiphany • When a character comes to a realization/truth of an event.

  14. Alliteration • Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds for effect. • And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain… -From “The Raven,” by Edgar Allen Poe

  15. Assonance • Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds for effect. • She came up to meet him In a smooth golden cloak, She choked him and beat him To death, for a joke.

  16. Consonance • Repetition of Consonant Sounds within a phrase, lines or sentences. • Example: • Now there is Rome indeed, • And room enough

  17. Onomatopoeia • Onomatopoeia is the use of words which sound like or suggest their own meanings, like “sizzle,” “snap,” and “rustle.” • Words that are made up. • Ex. “Fulumpugus”

  18. Hyperbole-Exaggeration • Exaggeration is overstating something usually for the purpose of creating a comic effect • Hyperbole: excessive overstatement or conscious exaggeration

  19. Meiosis-Understatement • When an event is downplayed- the issue is minimized to not make it a big issue.

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