Your task is to read this sheet, make use of the resources page, then create your own example for each literary device that is listed. This should be an original example.
Your examples should be something that you would use in your own writing.
Once complete, please make use of the self assessment tool.
Part Two
Once you have completed your collection of original examples of literary devices. I ask that you use them to form your own spoken word poem that you can share with someone at home. This is just for practice!
Figurative Language
These are all devices that are present in poetry. Use this sheet as an easy way to integrate several of these devices into your poem.
Simile - A comparison using like or as
Ex. She was as happy as a clam
Metaphor - A comparison where one takes on the identity of another in a non literal manner.
Ex. She was a lion on the court
Allegory - a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
Ex. Animal Farm novel
Allusion - an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference
Ex. The rise in poverty will unlock the Pandora's box of crimes
Symbol - a concrete image which is literally present but which by its continued use suggests a secondary level(s) of meaning, richer and deeper and broader than the first
Ex. Raven – Death
Personification - the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Ex. Whistling wind
Metonymy- referring to one part of something, intending for it to represent the whole
Ex. suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing.
Euphemism - a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
Ex. “passed away” instead of “died”
combining opposite ideas in one expression for effect
Ex. What a wise fool
A situation or a statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not
Ex. Nobody goes to that restaurant; it's too crowded
Situational irony exists when the outcome of the situation is the opposite of someone’s expectations
Dramatic irony occurs when the audience has important information that characters in a literary work do not have
Verbal irony exists when a person says one thing and means another