Literary devices with “ annabel lee”

1. Get ready meet one of America’s biggest creepers! Literary devices with “annabel lee”

2. Directions • Create a Keynote presentation for the upcoming notes. • You should have ONE slide for EACH word. Include the following: • Definition • Example • Picture/image (we will do this part LATER, not right now!)

3. alliteration • definition: the repetition of the consonant (non-vowel letters) sound at the beginning of two or more words • Examples: • “do or die” • “the sweet smell of success” • “now or never” • “safe and sound”

4. personification • definition: Giving humanlike (hence PERSON) qualities to something that is not a person/human. • It is NOT animation! • Examples: • The trees danced in the breeze. • My garbage disposal vomited last night’s dinner all over the sink.

5. repetition • definition: the repeating of words or phrases done for an obvious purpose, or to emphasize an idea • Examples: Keeping time, time, time In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the paean of the bells Of the bells To the throbbing of the bells Of the bells, bells, bells --Edgar Allan Poe • Question: What words, sounds or images are repeated in this poem?

6. (internal) rhyme • definition: the repetition of the sound at the end of two or more words; occurs in the middle of the same line of poetry. • Example: I will remember December the way I wish it to be. Not the way it was. Reality is over-rated.

7. (end) rhyme • definition: the repetition of the sound at the end of two or more words; occurs at the end of lines. • Example: This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are. Yes. Some are red. And some are blue. Some are old. And some are new. Some are sad. And some are glad. And some are very, very bad.