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Literary DevicesSHORT STORY UNIT MODULE 1:
“THE BANANA TREE”
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Do Now: Copy down these terms.
Then define them if you can.
Imagery
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Dialect
Asyndeton
Polysyndeton
Allusion
Hyperbole
personification
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imagery
The giant tree was ablaze with the orange, red, and yellow leaves that were beginning to make their decent to the ground.
Using the five senses or literary devices to
create vivid pictures in the reader’s mind.
Any device (like simile or metaphor) that
paints a picture in your mind is imagery.
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simile
My books are as heavy as bricks.
A direct comparison between two unlike
things using like or as.
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metaphor
She is a firecracker.
A comparison between two unlike things
without like or as.
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onomatopoeia
BOOM! Whoosh.
A sound device; when a word
resembles the sound it means.
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dialect
Howdy, y’all!
The expressions, words, and phrases
used in a particular region.
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asyndeton
My heart, my soul, my life are
yours.
Not using conjunctions when you have a list of words or phrases. This makes the sentence more powerful.
"We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punch line." -- delivered by Jack Nicholson (from the movie A Few Good Men)
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/asyndeton.htm
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polysyndeton
For homework tonight, I have math
and science and social studies and
English and Spanish and music!
Overusing conjunctions when you have a list of words or phrases. Used for emphasis.
"It's [football] a way of life, really, to those particular people who are a part of it. It's more than a game, and regardless of what level it's played upon, it still demands those attributes of courage and stamina and coordinated efficiency and goes even beyond that for [it] is a means -- it provides a mental and physical relaxation to everybody that watches it, like yourself." -- Vince Lombardi
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/polysyndeton.htm
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allusion
Calling a young couple, Romeo
and Juliet
A text to world, history, or literature
connection.
"Iran and ISIS are competing for the crown of militant Islam. Both want to
impose a militant Islamic empire first on the region and then on the entire
world. They just disagree among themselves who will be the ruler of that
empire. In this deadly game of thrones, there’s no place for America or for
Israel.- Benjamin Netanyahu, Third Joint Session of Congress Address
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/allusion.htm
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hyperbole
My book bag weighs three tons.
Exaggeration .
"So first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the
only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -- Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/hyper
bole.htm
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personification
The tree danced in the wind.
Giving human qualities to nonliving
things or to animals