1 / 18

Language Devices

Learn about similes, metaphors, personification, pathetic fallacy, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and oxymorons. Discover how these language devices add depth and creativity to your writing.

littlej
Download Presentation

Language Devices

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Language Devices

  2. Simile = A simile is when you compare one thing to another using the words ‘as’ or ‘like’ The mixture is as sticky astoffee. She moves likea dancer. ‘hard and clear likeanequestrian statue upon its pedestal’ ‘glimmered like aghost’

  3. Make up your own… • The moon glowed like. . . . . . • His face was as red as…….. • Raindrops dripped down the window pane like. . . . . . • Smoke floated on the air like. . . . . . • The air smells as fresh as . . . . . .

  4. Copy this table into your document

  5. Metaphor = when one thing is compared to another • A shark’s restaurant • A lion’s roar • A quilt of blue • ‘slanting rays of low sun turning the streams tothreads of gold’ • ‘Deathly silence’ • ‘the very dead of night’

  6. Make up your own… The dark is … The sun is… The trees are……

  7. Write in your documnt

  8. Personification = when inanimate (not moving/living) objects are given the qualities or actions of a living person or creature. • The dilapidated (Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, as through neglect; broken-down and shabby.) house appeared depressed. • My computer throws a fit every time I try to use it. • Time flew and before we knew it, it was time to go home. • The popcorn leapt out of the bowl. Can you think of any?

  9. Write in your document

  10. Pathetic fallacy = similar to personification only applied to the nature. • Angry clouds • A cruelwind • The stars danced playfully in a moonlit sky. • The flowers waltzed in the gentle breeze. Your turn A ………….. sky/tree/wave…

  11. Write in your document

  12. Alliteration = Is the repetition of consonant sounds near each other: • sweet smell of success • bigger and better • jump for joy • ‘sinking sun’ • ‘foaming the fantastic surges’ Can you think of any?

  13. Write in your document

  14. Onomatopoeia means a word that sounds like the common sound of the object it is describing. • Plopwent the penny in the water. • My cola fizzedin the glass. • Splashwent my friend in the stream. • The snake hissed. • The train went choo choo! • The birds are cawing. Can you think of any?

  15. Oxymoron = words close together that have opposite meanings • We’re alone together • Thelivingdead • It’s the samedifference • She’s prettyugly • He gave him a headbutt • It was like a silentscream

More Related