Post #1 Literary Devices
Learning Goal: Understand the use of imagery, figurative language, and symbolism in fiction.
1. Identify a literary device used in the novel. Copy the line and page number.
2. Explain how the device helped to make meaning clear.
3. What effect did the device have on the mood, tone, or message?
Refer to pages 538-539 of the blue Holt Elements of Literature textbook for detailed descriptions of literary devices. The main literary devices include imagery, figurative language, and symbolism. According to our textbook they can be defined as:
Imagery is language that creates pictures. Imagery can reach our other senses. It can help us not only to see something but also to smell or taste it, hear it, and feel its texture and temperature. (Example: “The first stroke of the young violinist’s bow produced a piercing whine, so unintended that the artist’s eyes rolled in sympathy with his audience.” )
Figurative language includes similes, metaphors, and personification.
In a simile, a writer compares two unlike things using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’ or ‘than’ or ‘resembles.’
(Example: “The sea was as smooth as glass.” )
(Example: “The sea was as smooth as glass.” )
In a metaphor a writer compares two things directly, without using the words like, as, than, or resembles. (Example: “The sea was a sheet of glass.”)
In personification something nonhuman is given human characteristics. (Example: “The sea sang a song of peace.”)
In literature a symbol is a person, place, or thing that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well. For example, a red rose might stand for or symbolize love.
Read all of the information above to help you answer the three questions.Read your classmate's comments. Learn from them. Respond to their comments in some way.
death was a fly that stppped buzzing when the swatter hit it chris medifor
ReplyDelete"Those hogs are our Bread and Butter" which means that they make money by selling the hogs
ReplyDeleteblake b/ death was a fly that stoooppped buzzzing
ReplyDeletewhen the swatter hit it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
their absence made everything look different,like a fresh haircut exposing band of untanned skin on a forehead.(metaphor)
ReplyDeletecallum parnell pd.4
Please explain what your examples of figurative language mean. How do these statements help you understand the book better?
ReplyDeleteThere are many similes in this book and my favovrite is " He felt like he was drowning in the flow of her words ". This means that Luke is only paying attention to his mom and what she is saying to him. Pg.#9. It shows that Luke is staring with a blank stare only listening and that it has an effect on the imagery and what the reader understands.
ReplyDelete-Mackenzie Knoix:)
he took one last breath of fresh air, sented with the smell of clover and honeysuckle and comming from far away-pine smoke.
ReplyDeletei think that is imagry because it helps you understand what he is seeing
Gabby E. 7th
on chapter 2 the figuative language is imagery.....
ReplyDelete"the day of his 6th birthday mother baked a cake a special one with raseberry jam dripping down the sides"
taylor b
brooke n
He saw the first tree shudder and fall far off in the distance. This is a personification because trees cant shudder.
ReplyDelete-Jason P Period 7
(alex didnt help write this)
i now this is off topic of literary divices but i couldn't help but to say that thisis one of the best books i have ever read over the weekend i could bearly put the book down it is a very dicriptive, sad book i mean could you even think of how bad that would have been staying inside all the time i wouldn't be able to stan dthat
ReplyDelete*The gold family had hair the color of sunshine*!
ReplyDeleteMetophore, beacuse it dosent use like or as and its comparing two things. It helps us understand what they look like. it is also imagry.
Alorra T, Jessica W, & Ethan E.
their absence made everything look different, like a fresh haircut exposing a band of untanned skin on a forehead.
ReplyDeletethis is a simile because the author is comparing the absence of the trees to a fresh haircut exposing the skin on a forehead plus she used "like"
i agreee with Alorra, Jessica and Ethan that it does help the reader visualize what the gold family looks like.
ReplyDelete-Mackenzie Knox:)
their absence made everything look different, like a fresh haircut exposing a band of untanned skin on a forehead. Thats a simile because it has the word "like" and its comparing the absence of the trees to the haircut exposing his skin on his forhead jessica blankenship
ReplyDeleteour literary device we used on our poster was... death was "like" a fly when a swatter hit it.
ReplyDeletethat device was a simile because it compared death to a fly when a swatter hit it.
blake b is a copier
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