Sarah Haag

September 27th, 2016

• Reviewing literary terms from yesterday (September 26th)
• Simile
• Comparing something using like or as
• “You're as cuddly as a cactus, you’re as charming an eel"
• Foreshadowing
• Giving a hint of what's to come to the audience.
• The witches in Macbeth givies him his prophecy showing him and the audience what is to come in the play
• Oxymoron
• A figure of speech in which two with of opposite meanings are combined; ALWAYS two phrases
• Jumbo shrimp
• Assonance
• repetition of a vowel sound
• “I must plea, a tree is free if you see where you hit your knee."
• Rhetorical question
• A question asked without expecting an answer
• Are you kidding me?
• Next group
• Antithesis
• Literal meaning of opposite
• Love and hate
• Situational irony
• Has effect that is the opposite of what is intended
• A marriage counselor files for a divorce
• Personification
• A thing, an idea, or an animal that is given human attributes
• The cat cried
• The ink bled
• Paradox
• A statement that contradicts itself, or that must be true and untrue at the same time
• Less is more
• It’s a giant shrimp

• Metaphor
• A figure of speech without using like or as
• Cause, baby, you’re a firework
• We reflect and try to make examples on our own.
• Different group
• Anadiplosis
• Repetition in the first part of a sentence of a constantly used wrd from the later part of the sentence or a future sentence
• Fear leads to hate, hate leads violence
• Cacophony
• The use of words with sharp harsh unmelodious sounds
• Imagery
• Visually descriptive language in writing
• Her blue eyes were as bright as the sun, blue as the sky, but soft as silk
• Parallelism
• The repetition of a similar or identical words or sentence structures to give pattern and rhythm to literary work.
• Asyndeton
• A sentence that does not use conjunctions
• I came, i saw, i conquered

I learned that literary devices can help explain what you are trying to achieve in saying/describing.