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Understanding literary devices

Understanding literary devices. What are literary devices?. Literary devices are different tools you can use to make your writing come alive. They are some of the things that keep you interested in the literature.

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Understanding literary devices

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  1. Understanding literary devices

  2. What are literary devices?

  3. Literary devices are different tools you can use to make your writing come alive. They are some of the things that keep you interested in the literature. Literary devices can also be referred to as literary technique and figurative language.

  4. The repetition of a constant sound repeatedly in a sentence is called alliteration. The most common form of these are tongue twisters

  5. She sells sea shells by the sea shore. Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers.

  6. Hyperbole is a description that is exaggerated to display something positive or negative.

  7. Beth has to be the most outrageous professor in the entire world. He breath is so stink that when he talks plants in a five mile radius start to wither.

  8. so·lil·o·quy Pronunciation[suh-lil-uh-kwee] Pronunciation Key , plural -quies. 1.an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character's innermost thoughts): Hamlet's soliloquy begins with “To be or not to be.” 2.the act of talking while or as if alone.

  9. Shakespeare plays are known for having these. One of the most known one is: “To be or not to be. That is the question Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer.”

  10. Metaphor - a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”

  11. Pun- the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words. A bicycle can't stand-alone because it is two tired.

  12. Simile-A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as, as in "How like the winter hath my absence been" or "So are you to my thoughts as food to life" (Shakespeare). dictionary.com

  13. Onomatopoeia is when sounds are spelled out or when words describing sounds sound like the sounds they describe. POOF POW Wham SNAP

  14. Oxymoron are contradicting terms Same Difference Jumbo shrimp Cold fire

  15. personification-animals, ideas or inorganic objects are given human characteristics I love to read said Earthworm Jim.

  16. Pop Quiz

  17. Name the term for the following She is sweet as pie. I’ll hit you so hard your grandchildren will feel it. Wicked angel

  18. . Susan rubbed the lamb and poof a genie appeared. How much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck? Every calendar’s days are numbered. Charlotte’s Web is and example of what?

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