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Literary Devices

Literary Devices. English III. What are literary devices?. Tools used by the author to enliven and provide voice to writing. Figurative Language: a way of saying something other than the literal meaning of the words. . Allusions Foreshadowing Dramatic Irony Metaphor Simile

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Literary Devices

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  1. Literary Devices English III

  2. What are literary devices? • Tools used by the author to enliven and provide voice to writing. • Figurative Language: a way of saying something other than the literal meaning of the words.

  3. Allusions Foreshadowing Dramatic Irony Metaphor Simile Personification Alliteration Symbolism Types of Literary Devices or Figures of Speech:

  4. Figurative Language • Figurative language uses "figures of speech" • A word or phrase that departs from everyday literal language for the sake of comparison, emphasis, clarity, or freshness. • This is executed through the use of: similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration and symbolism.

  5. Allusion: • A reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature. Allusions are often indirect or brief references to well-known characters or events. • An allusion is understandable only to those with prior knowledge of the reference in question (as the writer assumes the reader has). • Writers use historical, mythological and Biblical allusions in his writing.

  6. Example: • Describing someone as a "Romeo" makes an allusion to William Shakespeare's famous young lover in Romeo and Juliet.

  7. Similes • A simile is a comparison of two unlike things, typically marked by use of "like", "as" or "than".

  8. Examples: • Her hair was like gravy, running brown off her head and clumping up on her shoulders.

  9. Metaphor: • A comparison made by referring to one thing as another . Usually these are two completely different things. • Why do you think writers compare two unlike things?

  10. Examples: • Life is a beach. • No man is an island. • For ever since that time you went awayI've been a rabbit burrowed in the wood.

  11. Personification: • A figure of speech whereby an inanimate or non-living object is given human characteristics. • Can you think of an example of personification from a piece of literature you have read?

  12. Examples: • The drums were weeping today. • The wind cried in the dark. • The chicken hurled insult after insult at me. • The camera loves me.

  13. Alliteration: • The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of two or more words

  14. Examples • She sells seashells down by the seashore. • The twisting trout twinkled below.

  15. Foreshadowing • An author’s use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story. • Not all foreshadowing is obvious. Frequently, future events are merely hinted at through dialogue, description, or the attitudes and reactions of the characters.

  16. Examples ENGLISH SHORTS

  17. Symbolism • Something that on the surface is its literal self but which also has another meaning or even several meanings. • A symbol may be said to embody an idea.

  18. Example • A sword may be a sword and also symbolize justice.

  19. Dramatic Irony • When the audience or readers know something that the characters do not

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