3 Literary Features

1. 3 Literary Features Abrar Elhassan 9C

2. Literary Feature 1:Imagery (Sight) What is it? Imagery is a visual description of a specific text. There are 5 different imagery descriptions and they can be 1. Sight, Smell, Touch, Hearing and taste. In this specific imagery feature, we are talking about the sight and how the reader can visualize something while reading a text.

3. Example In Story In the story there are many examples of imagery features. One of them is when the author describes how the angel looks like. Ex. “He was dressed like a rag picker. There was only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather took and sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked were forever tangled in the mud,” In this text we can visualize how the angel/creature looks like just by reading the text. We can call this imagery (sight).

4. Literary Feature 2:Foreshadowing What is it? Foreshadowing can be a clue , hint or an indication of what’s going to happen next in a text. Usually authors, poets etc, try to include foreshadowing to keep the reader pondering about the story and to try and keep the reader attached to the story.

5. Example In Story “He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man. Lying face down in the mud, who, in spite his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up. Impeded by his enormous wings,” In this part of the story, the author tries to captivate the reader by writing something extraordinary or exciting to make the reader want to more of what will happen next.

6. Literary Feature 3:Metaphor What is it? A metaphor is when we compare an object, action, etc without using like or as. For example "The rain came down in long knitting needles.”

7. Example In Story “he was no longer an annoyance in her life, but an imaginary dot on the horizon of the sea,” This text is a metaphor because its comparing someone to something. Because the author is comparing a person to an imaginary dot on the horizon of the sea.