Literary Devices #1
What is figurative language?
Is a type of communication that does not use a word's strict or realistic meaning.
What is Imagery?
Is an image that uses the 5 senses (ex: hearing, smell, taste, touch, and sight)
What is Hyperbole?
an exaggeration emphasis or dramatic effect in a statement.
What is Onomatopoeia?
Is sound put into words.
What is Personification?
Giving human traits to non-human things.
Using words "like" or "as" in a statement.
Simile
makes an implied comparison between two unlike things.
Metaphor
Is something that makes your brain thinks something is false but also true at the same time
a paradox
a story, poem, or picture that can be interrupted to reveal a hidden meaning.
Allegory
Combines contradictory words with opposite meanings
oxymoron
"BOOM, POW, KACHOW!!"
Onomatopoeia
"If you know one thing, it's that I know nothing"
a paradox
"Defeating silence"
Oxymoron
"I'm so hungry that I could eat a horse"
hyperbole
"My mom has a heart of gold."
a Metaphor
"Cost me an arm and a leg" is an example of ______
Idiom
"The sun happily greeted everyone 'good morning'," is an example of ___________
Personification
Fill in the blank:
"Light ____ a feather"
1) as
Fill in the blanks:
s___ll, he___, t__te, t___ch, and s___ are commonly used in imagery
1) smell 2) hear 3) taste 4) touch 5) see
Is a style or form of artistic expression that is characteristic of an individual
Idiom