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Literary Terms Review

Literary Terms Review. Can You Identify them?. Can you identify this device?. What about this one?. Can you explain WHY this is ironic?. Practice Test. Read the song lyrics carefully. In your notebook, record which literary device is being used in the highlighted/colour coded sections.

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Literary Terms Review

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  1. Literary Terms Review Can You Identify them?

  2. Can you identify this device?

  3. What about this one?

  4. Can you explain WHY this is ironic?

  5. Practice Test Read the song lyrics carefully. In your notebook, record which literary device is being used in the highlighted/colour coded sections.

  6. “The Sound of Silence”By Simon & Garfunkel Hello darkness, my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again, Because (#1) a vision softly creeping (#2) Left its seeds while I was sleeping, And the vision that was planted in my Brain Still remains Within the (#3 – sound device) sound of silence.

  7. Practice Test Continued… In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone, ’neath the halo of a street lamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp (#4) When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light (#5 – sound device)That split the night And touched the (#6 – style device) sound of silence.

  8. Practice Test Answers • Personification • Metaphor • Alliteration • Personification • Cacophony • Oxymoron

  9. Practice Test 2 Hey Look! A metaphor!

  10. “I am a Rock”By Simon & Garfunkel (#1 – hint: importance of setting)A winter’s day In a (#2)deep and dark December; I am alone, Gazing from my window to the streets below On a (#3 – hint: not alliteration) freshly fallen silent shroud of snow. (#4) I am a rock, I am an island.

  11. Continued… Don’t talk of love, But I’ve heard the words before; (#5) It’s sleeping in my memory. I won’t disturb the slumber of (#6)feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried. I am a rock, I am an island.

  12. Practice Test 2 Answers • Pathetic Fallacy • Alliteration • Euphony • Metaphor • Metaphor • Personification

  13. What’s this?

  14. Which device is at work here? In the play Oedipus, a manis told a terrible prophesy: he will murder his father and marry his mother. Eventually, we watch as he meets his mother…fails to recognize her and falls in love. If only he could have known…

  15. Can you name the device? “If you’ll excuse me, I need to visit the little girls’ room. My unmentionables have become uncomfortable beneath my clothes. Did you see earlier when Julie fell on her behind? It was simply too funny. Next week I will have to attend a memorial for someone who has gone to the other side. So sad.

  16. Quick Response…. I had to drive eight thousand miles to find the right shampoo! Wow, Beth. I totally love your skirt. I had one just’ like…until I turned 10. Honey! I’m taking the kids to the movies. We’re taking the car! Yo! That trick was mad sick! That four hour exam was not the best thing I’ve ever done with my time.

  17. Say what? “Torbay dekes around the player at centre ice. Oh! We may have a slashing penalty here. The whistle has been blown. It looks like an icing call.” “Before the patient in the ICU can have a full recovery, he’ll require several EEGs. He’ll require a regular routine of 50 ccs of Melanine every four hours. Can I get a crash cart in this room in case we need it?

  18. Even Disney’s in on this literary terms stuff! Simba is the lion cub of King Mufasa and Queen Sarabi. His uncle, Scar, kills Mufasa, blames Simba for the death, and becomes the king, destroying the lion kingdom. As a grown lion, Simba returns to Pride Rock. There, he fights and defeats Scar, the undeserving king of Pride Rock.

  19. Mean Girls (2004) Cady is new to her school. Immediately, she meets “The Plastics,” a group of mean girls who want to make everyone’s life miserable to ensure their popularity. Cady and her friends, Janice and Damian, decide to ruin Regina George’s life, giving her protein bars to make her gain weight, and stealing her boyfriend away.

  20. Are you ready for the REAL test?? Say What Miss?

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