Literary Devices
Comparing two unlike things using like or as.
What is simile.
Name the figurative language and state what the line is in the song.
All innocent children
Had better beware
She's like a spider waiting
For the kill
Look out for Cruella De Vil
What is simile, "she's like a spider waiting for the kill"
The author's intention for the way their piece makes a reader feel.
What is tone.
Read this excerpt:
They loved to drop gracefully from nowhere, like two sparkling birds, and blow kisses as they threw off their plumed helmets and high-collared capes.
What does plumed mean?
What is full of feathers
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.
What type of poem is this?
What is a sonnet
Comparing two unlike things without using like or as
What is metaphor
Read the figurative language. What are they really saying to Mulan?
You must be as swift as the coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon, with all the strength of a raging fire.
What is you have to be stronger than everyone else and everything else.
How the reader feels.
Read this excerpt:
As to his head, he was conscious of nothing but a feeling of fullness—of congestion. These sensations were unaccompanied by thought. The intellectual part of his nature was already effaced; he had power only to feel, and feeling was torment.
What does effaced mean?
What is erased
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken; (sonnet 116)
What does ever-fixed mean?
What is permanent
Giving something non-human human qualities.
What is personification.
Name the figurative language. What does it mean?
The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside
Couldn't keep it in, heaven knows I've tried
What is a simile. The upset and uncontrollable weather mimics how she is feelings inside.
A description of the distinctive nature or features of a fictional character
What is characterization.
Read this excerpt:
My mother is the surviving half of a blindfold trapeze act, not a fact I think about much even now that she is sightless, the result of encroaching and stubborn cataracts.
What does encroaching mean?
What is advancing slowly
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks (sonnet 116)
What is being personified in this quote?
What is Love and Time
Name the figurative language.
The snack that smiles back.
What is personification. Snacks can't smile
What is the figurative language? Give the line.
A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're fast asleep
In dreams you will lose your heartaches
Whatever you wish for, you keep
What is personification, "a dream is a wish your heart makes". Hearts can make wishes.
The overall message of a piece of literature
What is theme.
Read this excerpt:
They faced the afternoon. It was too hot. Too bright. The white walls of the veranda glared stridently in the sun.
What does stridently mean?
What is forcefully
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.(Sonnet 116)
What does this quote mean?
What is Love changes someone until death
What is the figurative language in the image? https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e7/ca/cb/e7cacbd6880782ce2946f6ad72b26553.jpg
What is metaphor-the tabasco is hot like fire, so you will need a fire extinguisher to put out the heat.
What is the figurative language in this song lyric? Explain.
Now, think of the happiest things.
It’s the same as having wings
Let’s all try it, just once more
Look! We’re rising off the floor
What is a simile, "think of the happiest things. It's the same as having wings". Happy things make you feel free
The expression of ones meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite typically for humorous emphatic effect
What is irony.
Read the excerpt:
He was now in full possession of his physical senses. They were, indeed, preternaturally keen and alert. Something in the awful disturbance of his organic system had so exalted and refined them that they made record of things never before perceived.
What does preternaturally mean?
What is in a supernatural way
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.
What is the theme of this sonnet?
What is love is everlasting