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Imagery Figurative Language hyperbole allusion simile assonance
personification hyperbole allusion metaphor Alliteration onomatopoeia
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Alliteration: Repetition of the first consonant
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Alliteration Stan the strong surfer saved several swimmers on Saturday. Tiny Tommy Thomson takes toy trucks to Timmy’s on Tuesday.
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Allusion A reference to another work of literature, art, film, etc. The reader understands to allusion and the hidden meaning behind the words.
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Allusion… The Grinch (in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”) is called
a Scrooge – a reference to “A Christmas Carol”
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Assonance: The repetition of internal vowel sounds.
Doesn’t have to rhyme!!
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Assonance Princess Kitty will kiss Timmy T. Tipper.
The pain may drain Drake, but maybe the weight is fake.
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Hyperbole exaggeration
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I was hopping mad. Hyperbole… I nearly died laughing. Authors use
for emphasis
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Imagery Use of figurative language to create mental pictures by appealing to one or more of the five senses (sight, hearing, feeling, smelling or tasting.)
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Imagery He fumed and charged like an angry bull.
The ants began their daily marching drill.
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something by comparing it
Metaphor: A way of describing something by comparing it to something else (not using like or as)
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Metaphors The balloon was a feather floating away.
The girl was a fish in the water. The balloon was a feather floating away.
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Onomatopoeia: Words that are sounds
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Onomatopoeia Toot! Toot! Glippp Gluppp Gluppp
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Personification: to compare something that is not human as if it were human.
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Personification The flowers danced in the wind.
The friendly gates welcomed us.
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comparing it with something
Simile: a way of describing something by comparing it with something else using "like" or "as"
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Similes: I am hungry as a horse. He is happy as a clam.
He is happy as a clam. He is sneaky as a snake.
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Blog Assignment Snap a photo of the section of the reading that has one of the literary devices that we just went over. Circle or underline where in the text the device is. Add at least 3 stickers. Upload to class blog. Programs you can use: SnapChat, Piktochart, Cuncee, or PPT. PLEASE INCLUDE: Your First & Last Name with your submission on the class blog. You WILL BE SUBMITTING 2 Book Snaps(Two different Literary devices) Due: Wednesday, December 13th at 11:59pm
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