*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".
5 comments:
Onomatopoeia: In Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser, the pop, pop, pop is referring to the sound as live animals get stunned by a captive bolt stunner. (Pg.171) Simile: In Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser, the author writes, "picking them [the meat] almost as clean as the white skulls painted by Georgia O'Keeffe." (Pg.171) Parallelism: In Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser, the text read, “He’s wrong about our people, wrong about our jobs, and wrong about our food.” (Pg.276)
I found three examples of onomatopoeia: whisper (Lee 26), racket (Lee 29), and strike (Lee 17).
For the second literary device I located an example of personification: “The tired old town” (Lee 6).
The third example I came across was symbolism: “Miss Stephanie Crawford said he was so upright he took the word of God as his only law, and we believed her, because Mr. Radley’s posture was ramrod straight.” (Lee 14) Mr. Radley’s stature being totally straight, is a symbol of his Godly, moral, and upstanding character.
A fourth example of a literary term I found was "Negro" dialect:
“They’s my comp’ny.” (Lee 158).
In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, I located three literary devices.
Simile: "The tire bumped on gravel, skeetered across the road, crashed into a barrier and popped me like a crok onto pavement." (page 50)
Oxymoron: "It was customary for field Negroes with tiny childern to deposit them in whatever shade there was while their parents worked- usually the babies sat in the shade between two rows of cotton." (page 164)
Personification: "...in the quietness of his foggy island there rose the fadded image of a gray house with sad brown doors." (page 192)
In "To Kill a Mockingbird" I found a few literary devices:
Symbolism: When Dill told a story,"his blue eyes would lighten and darken," symbolizing the way his life lightened when he came to Maycomb for his summers, and how much he missed his friends and how dark his life was when he left back for home.
Personification: The town fire siren is compered to 'screaming' -"As to confirm what we saw, the town fire siren wailed up the scale to a tremble pitch and remained there, screaming"
Simile: "We could see him shiver like a horse shedding flies"
I found the following in "To Kill a Mockingbird."
Alliteration: "I waw Miss Stephanie Crawford's face framed in the glass window of her from door (Lee, 108)."
Simile: "We could see him shiver like a horse shedding flies... (109)"
Repetition: "I heard Mr. tate sniff...I saw him shift his gun to the crook of his arm...I saw Miss Stephanie Crawford's face...(108)"
I am far done with this book as I read it last year in 9th grade.
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