Literary Devices

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Main Menu Learn About What a Literary Device is Alliteration Onomatopoeia Foreshadowing Personification Simile Take the Quiz

WELCOME… This program has been designed to teach you about literary devices. Throughout the duration of this program you will learn what literary devices are, how they are used, and why we use them. You will also be taught five individual literary devices. At the end of the entire lesson, you will be able to take a quiz to test what you have learned! For Instructions Click Here

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Let’s Get Started! Hi! I’m Literary Bee! I’m going to be guiding and teaching you about literary devices!

From now on you will be working from the main menu! The main menu will allow you to select different topics to learn about! You can move freely at your own pace. After you’ve gone through all of the items on the menu, take the quiz to test what you have learned!

What is a Literary Device? Literary devices are like the effects added to movies. A literary device is a way to elaborate, enhance, and add details to literature, movies, television shows, plays, and even day to day life.

What is a Literary Device…? Literary devices can also be used to help create plot within a story. Literary devices are attention getters. They can be used to draw readers into a story.

Where are Literary Devices found? Literary devices are everywhere! They are in the books you read, the movies and television shows you watch, plays, music, and even in everyday conversation!

Where can we find Literary devices? Click on the pictures!

Where can we find Literary devices? This is a TV show. Friends has many different literary devices in each of its episodes. Click on the pictures!

Where can we find Literary devices? The Harry Potter series includes lots of literary devices! Click on the pictures!

Where can we find Literary devices? Even the popular movie the Matrix uses literary devices! Click on the pictures!

Where can we find Literary devices? The Beatles even use them in their music! Click on the pictures!

Wherecan we find Literary devices? Even the famous Christmas play uses them too! Click on the pictures!

Why Learn about Literary Devices? It’s good to know about literary devices because they help us indentify what makes a story interesting! They also help us improve writing abilities by letting us know how to get the reader’s attention, and keep them interested in the story!

What is Foreshadowing? Foreshadowing is a literary device in which the author drops hints or gives clues about things that are going to occur later on in the plot of a story.

Where is Foreshadowing Found? Foreshadowing is found almost everywhere! Not only is foreshadowing a large part of books and literature, it can also be used in movies, televisionshows, and famous Broadway plays!

Examples of Foreshadowing Music is one of the best examples of foreshadowing. The use of music in a movie can alert the viewer about things that are going to occur in the movie. Happy and uplifting music can give hints that something good is going to happen to one of the characters. On the over hand, dreary, scary, or sad music may give hints that something bad is going to happen.

On the next slide we are going to watch a short clip about how music is used as foreshadowing! Make sure to click the video to play it!

Video Example of Music Foreshadowing

Music example: The Explanation The music in the background sets a scary tone! The music hints that something bad is going to happen when the shark is present. Without the music, the clip wouldn’t be scary.

Examples of foreshadowing Foreshadow is greatly used in literature! The author can talk about a dream that one of the characters had. The events in the dream could drop hints to something big that will happen later on! An author can also use very vague and unclear phrases like “a mysterious man followed her” and “on a dark and gloomy night”. Phrases like that give clues to the reader that something bad or mysterious is going to happen.

Example of Foreshadowing in Literature One of the best examples of foreshadowing in literature is a scene from Shakespeare’s famous play Hamlet. On the next page, there are a few lines from Hamlet! Read the lines and see if you can Identify the foreshadowing!

Hamlet Example Ghost : I am thy father's spirit, Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine: But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list! If thou didst ever thy dear father love-- HAMLET : O God! Ghost: Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. HAMLET Murder! Ghost: Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange and unnatural. HAMLET: Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge.

Hamlet Example: The Explanation When the Ghost speaks of how Hamlet should seek revenge, it gives hints to the reader that Hamlet will seek revenge after the person who killed his father. When Hamlet speaks of “murder” he is foreshadowing about events to come.

Practice Question Foreshadowing is only found in literature. T True False F

Correct Answer: The correct answer is FALSE. Foreshadowing is found in literature, but is also found in movies, television, and plays!

Question 1 What two words are used to identify similes? Be & Was Are & As Like & Be Like & As A B C D

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Question 2 What is foreshadowing? Giving hints or clue about a later event. A The plot of the story. B Comparing two like things. C Giving human qualities to an imamate object. D

Examples of Foreshadowing Music is one of the best examples of foreshadowing. The use of music in a movie Can alert the viewer about things that are going to occur in the movie. Happy and uplifting music can give hints that something good is going to happen to one of the characters. On the over hand, dreary, scary, or sad music may give hints that something bad is going to happen. Try Again!

Question 3 What is personification? Repetition of sounds. A A poem. B Comparing two like things. C Giving human qualities to an imamate object. D

Examples of Personification The flowers were suffering from the intense heat. Explanation: The flower is an inanimate object which has been given the human quality of suffering. Try Again!

Question 4 What is Onomatopoeia? Repetition of sounds. A A collection of sounds. B A word that imitates the sound it is describing. C Repetition of consonant sounds. D

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Question 5 What is Alliteration? Repetition of sounds. A A collection of sounds. B A word that imitates the sound it is describing. C Repetition of leading consonant sounds. D

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Question 6 What Literary Device is used in the following poem? The Fairy Her blue eyes as bright as the sky Her shimmering and glittering wings just like gold Her decorated clothes, fine and smooth like silk Her pretty long bronze hair Her lips as red as a primrose Her bag full of fairy dust and good magic Sprinkling everywhere. Simile A Alliteration B Onomatopoeia C Personification D

Literary Devices