*If you did not cite examples from the book you selected last week, you will not get full credit. Please go back and follow the directions. If you are not sure how to cite, refer to next week's post.
This week you will be hunting for literary devices.
Complete the following in your post:
1.Find 3 of literary devices from your reading this week (I have provided a list for your reference). Cite and label the device used. See the examples listed at the bottom of this post. Do not list the same examples that other students have already posted.
2. Go back to week 2.1 and leave a comment to greet a classmate.
3. You should be about half way through your book this week.
LITERARY DEVICES
- alliteration: repeated beginning sounds in a series of two or more words (Bravely, the bright bulging beacon flickered.)
- anastrophe/inversion: reversing the natural word order (Into the clouds soared the eagle.)
- hyperbole: extreme exaggeration (He had the weight of the world on his shoulders.)
- irony: using words or ideas that have the opposite effect from what is expected (His worst enemy saved his life.)
- metaphor: to compare two unlike things without using “like” or “as” (Her smile was sunshine.)
- onomatopoeia: a word whose sound echoes its meaning (pop, fizz, buzz)
- oxymoron: two words paired that seem to contradict each other (jumbo shrimp)
- paradox: statements that seem contradictory but are really true
- parallelism: repeated pattern of phrases, but not with the same words (He searched here, he searched there, he searched everywhere.)
- personification: giving human abilities or characteristics to inanimate objects (The desk groaned in agony.)
- repetition: repeated regular pattern of words or phrases (Nevermore, nevermore, nevermore.)
- simile: to compare two unlike things using “like” or “as” (He was like a rock.)
- symbol/allusion: an object, person, situation, or action means more than what it is or refers to something in previous history or literature
Examples:
Repetition: In "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, each stanza ends with "nothing more or nevermore."
Symbol: in "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe, the "mummer" or the "dark figure" is referring to the disease that was being spread before 20th century medicine.
Personification: "The Masque of the Red Death" describes the ebony clock as "having lungs and a face".
3 comments:
Simile: In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," when Huck says that Miss Charlotte, a southern wife, "held her head up like a queen."
Alliteration: Continued on from Twain's classic, when Huck and Jim are running away from a gang, they "sunk the skiff and slept like dead people."
Metaphor: When Huck is trying to find Jim, he find a "little open patch, big as a bedroom."
Personification:”Trouble has done it, Bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung these grey hairs and this premature balditude” (Huckleberry Finn 165)
Anastrophe: “Cairo would be the next place, I reckoned” (Huckleberry Finn 123)
Alliteration: “It’s well for you to sit there and blubber like a baby” (Huckleberry Finn, 275)
Symbol: In "The Great Gatsby" by F.Scott Fitzgerald, the "green light" at the end of the dock symbolizes Gatsbys dream for the future with Daisy.
Hyperbole: In "The Great Gatsby" it it says, "The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic-their retinas are one yard high."
Personification: In "The Great Gatsby" it says, " But each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident, argument which pulled me back."
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