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Warm-UP

Warm-UP. Please pick up a handout from the back shelf and complete. You should use your notes!. Literary Devices. Pun. A play on words based on the similarity of sound between two words with different meanings. “ I was going to look for my missing watch, but I could never find the time.”.

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Warm-UP

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  1. Warm-UP • Please pick up a handout from the back shelf and complete. • You should use your notes!

  2. Literary Devices

  3. Pun • A play on words based on the similarity of sound between two words with different meanings. • “ I was going to look for my missing watch, but I could never find the time.”

  4. Idiom • A group of words that have specific cultural meaning; an expression that cannot be translated literally. • “A chip on your shoulder.”

  5. Oxymoron • Combination of contradictory words • “Icy-Hot”

  6. Simile • Comparison between two unlike things using like or as. • Her eyes were as bright as the moon.

  7. Metaphor • Makes a comparison, but it does not use the words like or as. Sometimes a metaphor makes the comparison by using the words is, are, was or were. • "The rain came down in long knitting needles."(Enid Bagnold, National Velvet)

  8. Personification • Giving human characteristics and feelings to animals, objects and ideas. • “I’m tired,” the dog said.

  9. Hyperbole • Exaggeration that is so extreme it cannot be true. • “I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse.”

  10. Allusion • A reference to another major work of art or something or someone familiar to the reader.

  11. Foreshadowing • An incident that points to an upcoming event in a story, used to build suspense. ( A hint or clue)

  12. Flashback • Interruption of time in a story, with the insertion of a past incident.

  13. Imagery • Created images within the mind through words that are descriptive and appeal to the five senses. • “The pitter-patter of the rain against the window.”

  14. Irony • Contrast between the expected and the actual event (occurs when the opposite of what you expect happens).

  15. Symbol • The use of an object to represent something else (sometimes a more abstract idea).

  16. Mood • The way the reader feels during a story.

  17. Tone • The author’s attitude towards his/her subject.

  18. Suspense • A feeling of anxious uncertainty a but the outcome of events in literature.

  19. Dialogue • A conversation between characters, usually set off by quotation marks.

  20. Dialect • The form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group. Eh? Y’all Youngin’

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